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JEHOVAH  JESUS,  THEIR  KING. 


A  WORD  TO  ALL. 


He  hath  desired  it  for  His 
This  is  My  rest  for  ever,  here  will  I  divellfor  I  have 

Ps.  132-13,  14. 


“ For  the  Lord  hath  chosen  Zion, 
habitation, 
desired  it.' 


BY 

W  IED  V.  .A..  O 
DES  MOINES 


DES  MOINES! 

IOWA  PRINTING  TOMPANY. 

1895. 


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Jtlmnortol. 

When  in  1845,  we  entered  the  Ministry  of  the 
Secession  Church  of  Holland,  (from  whence  we  were 
called  in  1851,  to  America),  our  Alpha  was  to  preach  the 
Gospel  to  Jew  and  Gentile;  we  advocated  the  establish¬ 
ment  of  a  Missionary  Society  in  our  Congregation  in 
behalf  of  the  heathen  and  the  Jews. 

In  1864,  we  commenced  in  the  city  of  New  York, 
A  Mission  to  the  Jews,  a  work  of  love  and  faith,  and 
were  as  Missionary,  and  also  as  Secretary  of  our  Society 
for  twelve  years,  daily  seeking  the  spiritual  welfare  of 
the  Jews. 

Remembering  that  period,  our  heart  feels  joyful  to 
mention:  How  willingly  our  “ now  departed "  dearly 
beloved  wife,  Mrs.  Agnes  J.  I.  Tris,  (who  died  recently, 
August  3rd,  1895),  was  to  go  with  us,  and  our  three 
small  children  to  the  city  of  New  York,  '  ill  which  we 
were  all  strangers  ”  She  was  not  only  a  true  helpmate, 
counselor  and  sweet  companion  showing  great  patience, 
love  and  self-sacrifice  in  many  trials  of  faith  and  hard¬ 
ships  in  that  ti'ying  mission  to  Israel;  She  was  also 
one,  who  by  her  Christian  example  drew  the  admiration 
of  the  Jews  as  loving  them  for  their  father’s  sake,  and 
truly  “we  never  could  have  accomplished  that  mission, 
without  her  arduous  labor." 

In  commemoration  of  this, and  our  happy  union  of 
nearly  thirty-nine  years ,  we  write  this  Memorial, 
giving:  God  and  the  Lamb  the  glory,  for  ever  and 
ever,  Amen  and  Amen,  Selah,  which  were  some  of  the 
last  words  of  our  beloved  one-and  now,  to  be  in  the 
presence  of  her  beloved  Savior  must  be  a  joy  unspeak¬ 
ably;  and,  to  adore  Him,  as  the  God-man,  the  son  of 
Abraham  must  thrill  the  deepest  recesses  of  oil  “'the 
spirits  of  just  men  made  perfect Truly,  her  crown 
bought  by  Jesus  will  willingly  be  laid  at  his  feet. 

And  now,  this  tract,  our  Omega,  as  a  golden  clasp  is 
fastening  all  our  life  work,  spoken  and  published  about 
Israel,  “the  Jews,”  and  of  the  personal  and  glorious 
coming  of  Jesus,  as  the  king  of  Israel.  We  set  solemnly 
OUR  SEAL  TO  IT  FOREVER,  as  being  THE  ONLY  REVEALED 

truth  of  the  Triune  God.  Amen. 

Wes  /lfcotnes,  Uowa,  ©etober,  1895.  A.  C.  TRIS. 


Vindications 


DIALOGUE. 

Doubter.  Good  morning ,  my  dear  brother  in  Christ , 
your  subject  announced  is  a  most  interesting  one ,  yet  you 
know  I  disagree  entirely  with  your  literal  explanation  of 
the  prophecies.  It  is  my  sincere  belief:  That  the  prophe¬ 
cies  speak  of  and  mean  the  present  Christian  Church;  that 
the  Jews  never ,  as  a  nation,  will  return  to  Canaan;  and 
that  Christ  will  never  be  their  King  in  Jerusalem. 

Minister.  Let  us  reason  together  in  all  kindness  and 
candor,  and  pray  for  the  annointing  of  the  Holy  Spirit 
“to  guide  us  in  all  truth,  and  to  show  us  things  to  come.” 
John  16:13. 

Doubter.  Please  produce  your  outward  proofs ,  your 
inward  proofs,  and  your  -Scriptural  proofs:  That  the 
.Tews  must  be  restored  as  a  nation  to  their  old  homestead, 
and  that  our  blessed  Lord  Jesus  will  be  King  over  them. 

M.  The  outward  proofs  are  many: 

THEOCRACY. 

Our  first  argument  is:  That  there  can  be  no  failure  in 
anything  that  Jehovah  has  established,  to  manifest  His 
own  glory.  The  Lord  established  over  Israel  and  Canaan 
“His  Theocracy”  for  900  years.  He  made  Palestine  the 
superior  power  on  earth,  ruling  there  as  the  Supreme  and 
making  it:  “The  cradle  of  true  religion.”  His  indwelling, 
Shekinah,  was  there,  manifested  in  the  Tabernacle  and 
in  the  Temple,  and  He  declared  that  Israel  was  “His 
firstborn’’  among  the  nations.  Exod.  4:22.  Since  Is¬ 
rael’s  dispersion  and  captivity,  Nebuchadnezzar  and  the 
four  world-dominions  and  kingdoms,  the  heathen  nations 
“the  Beasts”  were  substituted  in  the  place  of  Israel. 
Jer.  27:6,  8,  9;  Dan.  2:31;  so  that  the  Christ  of  God,  “ the 
promised  seed ,”  was  born  in  Bethlehem,  under  the  rule  of 
the  Roman  government ,  Luke  2:1.  The  promise  given  in 
Gen.  49:10  declares  emphatically:  “When  Shiloh  shall 
come,  that,  unto  Him  the  gathering  of  the  people  shall 


—  4  — 


be.’  This  has  never  yet  been  fulfilled:  “The  Lion  of  the 
tribe  of  Judah,  the  Root  of  David”  Rev.  5:4  has  never  yet 
taken  the  reign  as  “King  of  Nations”  Rev.  19:16,  “in 
“Mount  Zion  from  henceforth  even  for  ever.”  Micah  4:7. 
It  has  not  happened,  Mich.  4:8,  “That  the  first  (chief) 
dominion,  the  kingdom  has  come  to  the  daughter  of  Jeru¬ 
salem.”  The  declaration  of  the  archangel  Gabriel,  Luke 
1  -.32,  33,  “That  the  Lord  God  shall  give  unto  Him  (Jesus), 
the  throne  of  his  father  David,  and  that  He  shall  reigu 
over  the  house  of  Jacob  for  ever,  and  of  his  kingdom 
there  shall  be  no  end”  is  also  not  yet  fulfilled.  The  Chris¬ 
tian  church  is  not  a  kingdom,  is  not  the  house  of  Jacob,  and 
consequently:  The  King,  the  people  and  the  land  are  all 
Jewish  subjects;  Christ,  the  Jews,  and  Canaan,  are  so 
closely  united  in  one,  that  it  is  like  a  threefold  cord  that 
no  power  on  earth  ever  shall  be  able  to  cut  or  destroy. 
The  Jews,  now  set  aside  for  a  short  time  Isa.  54:7,  shall 
not  only  be  reinstated  as  a  nation,  but  permanently  live 
under  a  more  glorious  Theocracy,  under  the  rule  of  their 
eldest  brother,  “their  own  Joseph’’— having  the  domin¬ 
ion  of  the  earth,  Ps.  72:8,  and  then  it  will  be  seen  that 
there  is  no  failure  in  God’s  rule,  and  that  the  second 
Adam  is  also  the  beloved  David  promised  in  Hosea  3:5, 
“whose  rule  shall  be  everlasting,”  Isa.  9:7;  11:1-10. 

PROGENITURE. 

Our  second  argument  is:  That  the  progeniture  of  the 
eldest  son  is  an  established  fact  in  the  Orient.  Abraham 
is  called  in  Gen.  17:5  “a  father  of  many  nations.”  In 
Abraham  comes  the  Jew,  the  Christian,  the  Moslem,  yea, 
the  infidel  as  in  a  centre — a  wonderful  phenomenon  not 
to  be  found  elsewhere  on  the  globe— of  a  conglomeration 
of  nations  calling  one  man  their  father,  “as  a  Father  of 
nations ,  thus  literally  fulfilling  the  change  of  name,  which 
Jehovah  made  now  4,000  years  ago.  Isaac,  the  son  of 
promise,  the  only  son  of  the  legitimate  mother,  Sarah, 
was  declared  by  the  Most  High  God  to  be  the  heir  of 
Abraham,  his  father,  Gen.  21:7,  and  consequently  the 
property  of  Abraham  was  not  Ishmael’s  (the  son  of  the 
bond-woman,  the  progenitor  of  the  Moslems),  it  was 
belonging  to  Isaac;  and,  the  property  being  an  estate  in 
expectancy,  Acts  7:5,  Heb.  11:9-13,  the  title  deed  in  fee 


—  5  — 

simple ,  constituted  Isaac  as  the  bonajlde  owner  of  Pales¬ 
tine,  and  this  title  deed  was  recorded  in  heaven  and 
acknowledged  by  Jehovah’s  Covenaut,  Oath  and  Promise 
to  a  thousand  generations,  Ps.  105:8-1 1.  There  is  no  law 
or  power  in  the  Universe  which  can  abrogate  or  nullify 
that  act  and  document  of  the  chancery  of  heaven,  the 
lawful  descendants  of  Isaac  and  Jacob  must  by  the  law 
of  progeniture  possess  the  land  of  Canaan,  and  will  claim 
and  are  claiming  already  the  promised  possession. 

SACKED  GRAVES. 

Our  third  argument  is:  That  the  whole  world  acknowl¬ 
edges  the  sanctity  of  their  graves.  Let  us  pay  attention 
to  this  solemn  fact:  That  the  Holy  Land  is  filled  with  the 
graves  and  the  bones  of  pious  Israelites  who  served  the 
God  of  the  whole  earth  pre-eminently,  above  all  the 
nations  of  the  world.  No  wonder  that  the  pious  Israelite 
weeps  over  the  desolation  of  those  graves  Neh.  2:3;  and 
yearns  to  lie  down  and  to  be  buried  in  that  sacred  soil  of 
Canaan;  indeed,  the  Jews  are  a  nation  of  mourners  in 
this  respect,  and  are  looking  forward  with  great  sanctity. 

The  true  Christian  has  yet  greater  concern  than  ever 
Israel  had:  The  Lord  of  Glory  slept  for  three  days  in  His 
sanctified  grave,  and  rose  as  the  conqueror  of  death  and 
hell  Rev.  1:17.  He,  as  our  representative  and  surety, 
has  given  to  the  soil  of  Palestine,  a  sacredness  very  far 
above  our  comprehension.  Will,  and  can  these  graves 
forever  remain  in  the  hand  of  the  Infidels?  We  answer, 
no!  they  must  become  again  the  property  of  Israel,  the 
bones  of  the  idolatrous  priests  of  Bethel  were  burned  by 
Josiah,  2  Chr.  34:4,  5,  three  hundred  and  fifty  years  after 
their  burial,  1  King  13:2,  and  were  an  abhorence  in  the 
sight  of  Jehovah.  We  know  that  on  the  morning:  of  the 
Resurrection  day,  when  Jesus  shall  stand  on  the  Mount  of 
Olives  Zach.  14:4;  that  His  people  shall  come  forth,  like 
Lazarus  from  their  graves.  Then  the  land  of  Palestine 
shall  be  free,  and  Israel  shall  possess  it.  Ps.  69:34:36;  Ps. 
22:28:31;  Ps.  37:28,  29;  2  Thess.  1:7-10. 

SACRED  ASHES. 

It  is  one  of  the  enigmas  never  yet  explained:  That  the 
sacred  ashes  of  Mount  Zion,  produced  by  the  millions  of 
sacrifices  offered  to  Jehovah,  for  more  than  a  thousand 


—  6  — 

years;  that  the  tears  shed  at  the  sin  and  thank-offerings 
falling  upou  the  soil  of  Palestine  should  not  be  preserved 
in  Jehovah  bottle  as  a  remembrance9  Ps.  56:8.  That  the 
place  where  the  Shekinah  stood,  most  holy,  most  glorious, 
most  precious  above  anything  on  earth,  or  in  heaven,  for¬ 
ever  should  be  trodden  down  by  the  Gentiles  Luke  21:24, 
yea,  by  the  worst  of  the  Gentiles,  daily  blasphemiug  the 
identity  of  the  Sou  of  God,  the  Christ  of  God,  the  King  of 
Israel.  There  is  only  one  solution  to  this  problem,  and 
that  is:  That  God's  justice  shall  yet  be  vindicated.  The 
Moslems  (the  Turks)  shall  be  punished  for  their  odious 
crimes  and  Israel  shall  be  reinstated  in  their  lawful  pos¬ 
session:  coming  events,  which  will  beggar  all  description, 
shall  herald  the  doom  of  God’s  euemies,  and  the  glory  of 
His  dear  people,  the  Jews,  yet  beloved  for  the  Lather’s 
sake. 

THE  HOLY  LAND. 

Palestine  is  indeed  the  most  sacred  country  on  the 
globe:  In  no  other  country  on  earth  did  angels  sing,  and 
was  heard  the  melody  of  the  angelic  hosts,  but  in  Bethle¬ 
hem,  Ephratah,  Luke  2:13.  In  no  boundary  on  earth,  was 
heard  the  audible  voice  of  the  Father,  but  in  the  Para¬ 
dise,  Gen.  3:9;  in  Exod.  20:1;  on  the  stream  of  Jordan, 
Matt.  3:17,  and  “in  the  holy  mount,”  2  Peter  1:18.  What 
an  honor  and  dignity  were  bestowed  upon  those  sacred 
spots!  Indeed,  Palestine  is  the  sacred  place  of  the  Most 
high!  No  land  of  the  globe  was  ever  so  consecrated  by  the 
footsteps  of  the  Son  of  God,  and  no  laud  was  ever  so 
sanctified  as  Palestine,  by  the  descending  of  the  Holy 
Spirit  visibly  upon  Jesus  and  upon  the  Apostles,  Acts  2: 
1-5.  Yea,  no  other  soil  of  any  country  has  been  the 
receiver  of  the  sweat  and  blood  of  the  Son  of  man,  the  Son 
of  God.  Calvary  is  remembered  not  only  through  the 
ages.  It  is  remembered  by  Jehovah  Jesus  himself,  Rev. 
1:17,  Rev.  5:5;  and  all  generations  to  come  will  look,  with 
the  innumerable  host  of  angels  to  the  cross  of  jesus, 
planted  in  Jewish  soil.  Have  all  these  facts  no  significa¬ 
tion?  Are  they  not  most  precious  treasures  in  the  eyes  of 
a  Triune  God,  and  if  so?  Shall  the  Most  High  forget  His 
own  inheritance?  Jesus  came  once  as  the  banished 
one,  “to  his  own  things,  but  his  own  people  received  him 


—  7  — 


not,”  John  1:11.  Shall  He  not  claim  it:  “When  He  shall 
appear  the  second  time  without  sinoffering  unto  salva¬ 
tion,”  Hebrew  9:28?  Shall  the  soil  not  be  His  own,  which 
drunk  up  his  precious  blood?  Shall  Jesus  go  empty  away, 
and  leave  the  patrimony  oi'  His  fathers  and  the  throne 
of  dayid?  We  ask  these  questions  as  in  the  sight  of  the 
coming  One.  We  know  Israel  left  Egypt  without  leaving 
“a  hoof  behind,”  Exod.  10:26,  so  Jesus,  as  “ The  Israelite 
Indeed ”  shall  possess  not  only  His  Ruth ,  but  also  her  land, 
and  inheritance  forever  and  ever  as  the  Goel  of  Israel' 
Ruth  4:1-12. 

Doubter.  Let  us  now  hear  What  your  inward  proofs 
are ,  that  the  Jews  must  be  brought  back  to  their  patri¬ 
mony,  and  once  must  possess  the  land  of  Palestine  ? 

M.  Only  a  few  remarks  about  your  question. 

PALESTINE. 

This  sequestered  spot  of  earth,  answers  exactly  as  a 
counterpart  to  the  Jewish  people.  It  being  small  in 
dimensions  only  200  by  80  miles,  and  yet  it  is  known 
among  all  the  nations  of  the  world,  like  that  people;  It  is 
isolated,  closed  in  by  natural  obstacles,  chains  of  moun¬ 
tain,  deserts  and  sea,  and  yet,  it  has  been  the  battle¬ 
field  for  many  generations  of  Africa,  Asia  and  Europe. 
Indeed,  the  words  of  Jehovah,  have  been,  and  are  in  ful¬ 
filment  at  the  present  time,  that  Palestine  (the  Eastern 
question)  should  be:  “A  stone,  a  burdensome  stone  for  all 
people ,  all  that  burden  themselves  with  it  shall  be  cut  to 
pieces,  though  all  the  people  of  the  earth  should  be  gath¬ 
ered  against  it,”  Zech.  12:3,  and  the  same,  is  true  about 
the  Jews.  Palestine,  as  represented  by  the  cursed  fig-tree, 
Matt.  11:20,  is  now  like  the  Jews,  since  1800  years,  under 
the  curse,  in  a  exiled  state,  resting  of  its  Sabbaths,  wait¬ 
ing  for  the  redemption  of  Israel,  Luke  1:67-79. 

Let  us  never  forget  that  our  Lord  Jesus,  has  an  inher¬ 
itance  right  upon  that  land,  as  an  Israelite,  as  a  son  of 
Mary,  as  having  received  the  token  of  circumcision,  and 
as  the  heir  of  Abraham  and  David  his  fathers,  according 
to  the  flesh;  and  consequently  his  rights  must  forever 
remain  the  same,  as  long  as  Palestine  is  in  existence. 


—  8  — 


His  Messianic  claim  must  and  will  be  put  in,  at  some  day 
of  the  approaching  century ,  being  a  personal  claim,  and 
also  a  Mational  claim,  in  accordance  to  Zech.  2:9-13. 
“Sing  and  rejoice  O!  daughter  of  Zion,  for  lo,  I  come,  and 
I  will  dwell  in  the  midst  of  thee,  saith  the  Lord.... and 
the  Lord  shall  inherit  Judah ,  his  portion  in  the  holy  land , 
and  shall  choose  Jerusalem  again.  Be  silent  O!  all  flesh 
before  the  Lord,  for  He  is  raised  up  out  of  the  habitation 
of  His  holiness”  margin. 

ETHNOLOGY. 

Let  us  give  only  a  synopsis  of  this  extensive  subject: 

The  Jews  belong  to  “the  blessed”  race  of  Shem,  Gen. 
9:26,  so  Christ  is  a  Shemite,  and  the  Lord  of  Shem  No 
nation  is  purer  in  their  descent  of  blood,  Phil.  3:5,  for 
more  than  4,000  years,  than  Israel.  As  a  race,  they  bear 
a  most  wonderful  distinction;  a  Jewish  skull  is  known  and 
is  discerned  among  the  skulls  of  all  other  nations,  and 
when  living,  a  child  can  point  out  the  race,  often  saying 
with  scorn:  “It  is  a  Jew." 

Their  intellectual  faculties  are  of  a  superior  order. 
They  have  accumulative  powers  of  mind  in  learning, 
trading  and  commerce;  they  are  destined  to  become  “a 
race  blessed  by  God.” 

Their  restorative  powers  are  amazing;  they  are  like 
the  bush,  Lxod.  3:2,  burning,  but  not  consumed — never 
annihilated  in  thousands  of  merciless  persecutions, 
phenix-like  they  arise  out  of  their  ashes  and  shine  brighter 
than  ever  before. 

The  people  of  “the  wronged  sinew”  in  China,  the  per¬ 
secuted  Karaite  of  Russia,  those  living  on  the  Oder,  on 
the  Rhine,  on  the  Hudson,  or  elsewhere,  all  manifest  the 
same  traces  of  chaiacter. 

We  say  more,  the  nearly  ten  millions  of  Israelites, 
“Jews,”  possess  a  power  scarcely  dreamed  of  by  the 
Christian  nations.  As  a  nation  they  rule  the  money  markets 
of  the  world;  they  loan  billions  of  dollars.  “In  the  last 
twelve  years  the  house  of  the  Rothschilds  have  loaned  to 
certam  European  governments  nearly  $450,000,000”  {New 
York  World).  From  where,  and  what  are  the  reasons 
that  the  Jews  do  not  arise  as  a  nation  to  recover  the  pat- 


—  9  — 


rimouy  of  their  fathers,  the  graves  of  their  ancestors? 
We  answer,  the  time  appointed  for  that  event  has  not 
yet  arrived,  “the  pear”  spoken  of  in  Deut.  28:67  is  yet 
upon  them,  they  are  (as  before  in  the  wilderness)  in  a 
pr eparatory  slate,  they  are  now  serving  yet  the  nations, 
not  as  slaves,  but  as  man-pleasers.  “Their  table  being 
made  a  snare  and  a  trap,  and  a  stumbling  block  and  a 
recompense  unto  them”  Rom.  11:9;  they  worship  in  deed: 
“The  modern  golden  calf.” 

That  a  movement  among  the  Jews  will  be  a  fact  of  the 
near  future  is  plainly  indicated  in  the  prophecy  of  Ezekiel 
37:  ‘'‘The  dry  bone  s moved,”  the  skin,  flesh  and  sinews 
all  indicate  a  progressive  movement ,  and  also  the  marching 
of  the  army  of  the  slain  brings  before  us  a  concentration  of 
that  people;  and  truly,  it  seems  to  be  a  problem,  that  such 
a  movement  never  yet  has  been  tried.  What  a  revolution! 
What  a  convulsion  of  the  monetary  circles  of  the  wolrd  it 
would  give,  if  that  money  power  should  join  hands  with 
the  mass  of  that  people  in  all  lands  of  the  globe.  The 
Jews  as  a  nation  have  a  tendency ,  and  a  promise  to  be 
rulers  of  the  nations,  Isa,  60:12.  Indeed,  the  crescent  would 
wane,  at  the  thought  that  its  day  had  come,  and  that  the 
rightful  heirs  had  entered  their  own  patrimony.  Wonder - 
Jut  developments  may  be  seen  in  a  few  years. 

EXPECTATION  among  the  nations. 

Every  one  who  comes  in  contact  with  the  Jewish  na¬ 
tion  knows  and  understands  clearly:  “That  they  are  a 
people  dwelling  alone”  Numbers  23:10,  distinct  in  habits, 
peculiar  in  keeping  feast  and  fast  days;  in  one  word:  “an 
enigma”  among  nations;  and  yet,  Israel  is  a  rock  ou 
which  Infidelity  must  break  down;  a  star  of  light,  now 
dimly  shining,  which  will  Hash  forth  in  exuberant  light 
and  glory,  when  it  shall  come  near,  and  approach  to  “The 
Sun  of  Righteousness,”  their  lawful  King. 

This  feeling  is  found  everywhere  among  the  nations: 
The  orthodox  Jew  believes  aud  proclaims:  That  there  is 
yet  a  bright  destiny  in  the  future,  and  in  his  most  solemn 
assembly:  He  cries  out:  “ Next  year  our  j east  in  Jerusa¬ 
lem .”  The  Moslem  keeps  “the  Eastern  gate  at  Jerusalem 


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securely  shut,”  to  prevent  tne  entrance  of  the  expected 
coming  of  Israel’s  King  through  that  gate.” 

Among  all  the  oriental  nations  there  is  an  expectation 
that  great  events  will  come  and  that  Jerusalem  ‘‘the  sec¬ 
ond  holy  city  of  the  Moslems”  will  become  the  centre  of 
coming  evenls. 

And  so  it  is  among  the  Occidents:  How  many  tens  of 
thousands  of  believers,  “ prernillenarians ,”  waiting  for  the 
coming  and  the  glorious  appearance  of  the  Lord  Jesus, 
pray  daily,  pray  fervently:  “Tht  kingdom  come;”  they 
join  their  prayers  and  inward  hopes  with  the  Spirit  and 
the  Bride,  and  say;  “Come”  and  verify  the  word  of  Him 
who  has  promised:  “Surely,  I  come  quickly,  Amen.” 
Rev.  22:17-20.  Shall  the  doctrine  of  the  Primitive  Apos¬ 
tolic  church  be  set  aside  and  become  of  no  avail?  No! 
Jesus  comes  again— Jesus  as  earth’s  King  shall  rule  on 
David’s  throne. 

Doubter.  Your  suggestions  are  all  very  interesting , 
but  we  require  your  Scriptural  proofs-.  “ Thus  sank 
Jehovah  God!  What  is  written  in  the  volume  of  the 
BookV ’  and  to  establish  the  fact:  That  the  Jews  as  a 
whole  nation  shall  be  reinstated  in  Canaan,  and  that 
it  will  be  under  the  rule  of  Chi'ist ,  the  King  of  the  Jews, 
I  in  Jerusalem. 

M.  Your  demand  and  request  is  a  most  proper  one, 
and  it  is  our  desigu  to  lay  before  you  the  very  words 
spoken  by  the  Lord  on  these  subjects;  our  only  request  is: 
That  every  one  may  read  them  as  they  are:  “ literal ,” 
without  spiritualizing;  or  giving  to  them  another 
meaning  or  saying:  “This  must  be  understood  quite  differ¬ 
ent;  it  means  not  the  Jews  or  the  Jewish  land;  but  it 
means  the  Christian  church,  this  dispensation  or  the  coun¬ 
try  in  which  we  live.” 

DILEMMA. 

Jehovah  delares:  That  His  covenants  made  with  Abra¬ 
ham  and  David,  the  First  about  the  land  of  Canaan,  the 
Latter  about  the  Davidic  dynasty  are  made  forever: 

Gen.  17:7,  8.  “And  I  will  establish  my  covenant  between  me  and 
thee,  and  thy  seed  after  thee  in  their  generation  for  an  everlasting  cov- 


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enant,  to  be  a  God  uuto  thee  and  to  thy  seed  after  thee.  And  T  will  give 
unto  thee  and  to  thy  seed  after  thee,  the  land  wherein  thou  art  a 
stranger,  all  the  land  of  Canaan  for  an  everlasting  possession,  and 
I  will  be  their  God.”  Gen,  13:15:  “For  all  the  land  which  thou  seest, 
to  thee  will  I  give  it,  and  to  thy  seed  for  ever.  Ps.  105:8:  “lie  hath 
remembered  ...is  covenant  for  ever,  the  word  which  he  commanded  to  a 
thousand  generations.”  Ps.  89:3,  4:  I  have  made  a.  covenant  with  my 
chosen,  I  have  sworn  unto  David,  my  servant,  Thy  seed  will  I  establish 
for  ever,  and  build  up  thy  throne  to  all  generations.  Selah.”  2  Sam.  7: 
12-29;  Jer.  30:9,  10:  “But  they  shall  serve  the  Lord  their  God,  and  David 
their  King  (llebr.  their  beloved  King)  whom  I  will  raise  up  uuto  them 
and  Jacob  shall  return  and  shall  be  in  rest  and  be  quiet  and  none 
shall  make  him  afraid.”  Ezek.  34:24,  25:  “And  the  Lord  will  be  their 
God  and  My  servant  David  (Hebr.  My  beoved  servant)  a  prince  among 
them;  I  the  Lord  have  spoken  it,  and  I  will  make  with  them  a  covenant 
of  peace  . . .  and  they  shall  no  more  be  a  prey  to  the  heathen  nations.” 
Bzek.  37:25:  “And  they  shall  dwell  in  the  land  that  l  have  given  unto 
Jacob  my  servant,  wherein  your  fathers  dwelt,  and  they  shall  dwell 
therein,  even  they  and  their  children’s  children  for  ever  and  my  servant 
David  (beloved  servant)  shall  be  their  prince/or  ever."  (The  meaniug 
of  the  word  David  in  Hebrew  is  “ beloved .”) 

What  alternative  will  you  take?  If  you  sav:  These 
covenants  are  broken,  abrogated  or  set  aside.  Very  well. 
We  ask  you,  What  surety  have  you  that  the  new  covenant 
or  the  covenant  of  your  own  soul  is  not  set  aside?  One 
covenant  is  in  its  nature,  execution  and  sealing  even 
sacred,  holy  and  true  as  the  other;  God  is  a  covenent  lov¬ 
ing  and  a  covenant  keeping  God  and  your  denial  scatters 
alf  the  foundations  of  your  holy  religion.  You  say:  Those 
promises  are  fulfilled.  Judah  did  return  and  now  we 
have  another  dispensation.  We  answer:  Indeed  Israel 
did  partly  return  and  now  we  live  under  the  dispensation 
of  the  nations,  but  we  affirm  solemnly,  those  promises  are 
not  fulfilled,  they  are  for  ever.  The  Lord  calls  Israel  yet 
“ His  people Rom.  11:1-5.  “As  concerning  the  gospel 
they  are  enemies  for  your  sakes,  but  as  touching  the  elec¬ 
tion,  they  are  beloved  for  the  father’s  sake.”  Rom.  11:38, 
and  the  Lord  knowing  our  unbelief  iu  this  respect  has 
made  mountains,  hills,  rivers  and  valleys  to  be  co-wit- 
nesses  of  those  prophecies  and  are  made  pledges  to  the 
world,  indeed  the  following  words  are  unique:  “Ezek.  3L 
6-15,  “Therefore  thus  saith  the  Lord  God:  I  have  lifted  up 
mine  hand:  Surely  the  heathen  that  are  about  you  they 
shall  bear  their  shame.  But  ye,  01  mountains  of  Israel , 
ye  shall  shoot  forth  your  branches  and  yield  your  fruit  to 


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my  people  of  Israel,  for  they  are  at  hand  to  come,  for  be¬ 
hold,  I  am  for  you  and  I  will  turn  unto  you,  and  ye  shall 
be  tilled  and  sown.” 

THE  TWELVE  TRIBES  OF  ISRAEL. 

But  the  question  maybe  asked:  Does  the  expression 
“my  people  of  Israel’’  mean  all  the  house  of  Jacob,  all 
the  Jews,  without  any  exception ,  and  we  answer:  Yes,  it 
is  as  clear  as  the  cloudless  sun  that  shinelh  in  the  heavens: 

Ezelc.  36:10.  And  I  will  multiply  men  upon  you,  all  the  house  of 

Israel ,  even  all  of  it . and  I  will  settle  you  after  your  old  estates 

and  will  do  better  unto  you  than  at  your  beginnings .  Yea,  1  will 

cause  men  to  walk  upon  you.  even  my  people  Israel,  and  they  shall  pos¬ 
sess  thee,  and  thou  shait  be  their  inheritance.” 

Ezek.  37:11:  “Then  he  said  unto  me,  Son  of  Man,  these  bones  are 
the  whole  house  of  Israel:”  verse  19  “Thus  saith  the  Lord  God: 
Beheld,  I  will  take  the  stick  of  Joseph,  which  is  in  the  hand  of  Israel, 
his  fellows,  and  will  put  them  with  him  even  with  the  stick  of  Judah 
and  make  them  one  stick  and  they  shall  be  one  in  mine  hand  ....  and  I 
will  make  them  one  nation  in  the  laud  upon  the  mountains  of  Israel, 
and  one  King  shall  be  King  to  them  all,  and  they  shall  be  no  more 
two  nations,  neither  shall  they  be  divided  into  two  kingdoms  any  more 
at,  all.”  Ezek.  39:28:  “Then  shall  they  know  that  I  am  the  Lord  their 
God,  which  caused  them  to  be  led  iuto  captivity  among  the  heathen 
‘nations,’  but  I  have  gathered  them  unto  their  own  land  and  have  left 
none  of  them  any  more  there.”  Micah2:12:  “I  will  surely  assem¬ 
ble,  O  Jacob,  ALL  OF  thee  ”  Romans  11:26  “and  so  all  Israel  shall 
be  saved  as  it  is  written,  ‘There  shall  come  out  of  Zion,  the  Deliverer, 
and  shall  turn  away  ungodliness  from  Jacob;”  Hebrews  8:11.  “For  all 
shall  know  me  from  the  least  to  the  greatest.”  Luke  1:33  “And  He 
shall  reign  over  the  house  of  Jacob  for  ever.”  Luke  22:30.  “That  ye 
may  eat  and  drink  at  my  table  in  my  kingdom  and  sit  on  thrones,  judg¬ 
ing  the  twelve  tribes  of  Israel 

Doubter.  You  have  indeed  produced  forcible  argu¬ 
ments,  yet ,  what  we  like  to  hear  is  your  conclusive 
proofs:  That  the  Jews  will  come  out  from  their  present 
“Diaspora,"  and  will  settle  in  Canaan;  and,  in  what 
manner  that  restoration  will  be  accomplished ? 

M.  The  Ashkenazi  and  the  Sephardi,  Spanish  and 
German  Jews,  which  constitute  the  Jewish  population  of 
Europe,  and  of  Palestine,  belong  principally  to  the  tribe 
of  Judah,  and  these  will  settle  first  on  the  old  homestead, 
and  such  is  already  partly  the  case  with  them,  and  also 
with  Yemen  Jews,  which  are  at  present  in  Jerusalem 
and  in  Palestine.  Zechariah  12:7,  “The  Lord  also  shall 


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save  the  tents  of  Judah  first,  that  the  glory  of  the  house 
of  David,  and  the  glory  of  the  inhabitants  of  Jerusalem, 
do  not  magnify  themselves  against  Judah.”  Then,  after¬ 
wards,  the  descendants  of  the  Ten  Tribes  now  seemingly 
lost,  will  come  from  the  east,  Rev.  16:12.  A  general 
uprising  among  the  Jews  of  China  and  Ceylon, — among 
the  inhabitants  of  Afghanistan,  Bokhara,  Turkistan, 
Samarkand  and  Belouchistan  will  be  seen,  and  a  search¬ 
ing  after  the  descent,  and  descendants  of  Israel  every¬ 
where  shall  occur,  and  that  search  shall  be  made  thor¬ 
oughly,  the  following  prophecies  speak  of  a  twofold 
gathering: 

Isa.  49:12.  ,lBehold  these  shall  come  from  far,  and  lo  these  from 
the  North  and  from  the  west ,  and  these  from  the  land  of  Siuiin,”  Isa. 
31:8.  “Behold,  I  will  bring  them  from  the  North  Country ,  and  gather 
them  from  the  coasts  of  the  earth,  and  with  them  the  blind  and  the 
lame,  the  women  with  child,  and  her  that  travaileth  with  child  together, 
a  great  company  shall  return  thither.”— Jer.  3:12;  23:8.— Isa.  66:20: 
“And  they  shall  bring  all  tour  brethren  for  an  offering,  unto  the 
Lord  out  of  all  nations  upon  horses,  and  in  chariots,  and  in  litters 
(coaches),  and  upon  mules,  and  upon  swift  beasts,  to  my  holy  moun¬ 
tain  Jerusalem,  saith  the  Lord;”— Jer.  16: 16:  Behold  I  will  send  for 
many  fishers,  saith  the  Lord,  and  they  shall  fish  them;  and  after  will  I 
send  for  many  hunters,  and  they  shall  hunt  them  from  every  moun¬ 
tain,  and  from  everv  hill  and  out  of  the  holes  of  the  rocks;” — Amos 
9:9:  “For  lo,  1  will  command,  and  I  will  sift  the  house  of  Israel  among 
all  nations  like  as  corn  is  sifted  in  a  sieve,  yet  shall  not  the  least  grain 
fall  upon  the  earth.  Verse  15,  “And  I  will  plant  them  upon  their  land, 
and  they  shall  no  more  be  pulled  up  out  of  their”  land,  which  I 
have  given  them,  saith  the  Lord  thy  God;” — Micha  4:7,  And  I  will 
make  her,  that  halted  a  remnant,  and  her  that  was  cast  off  a  strong 
nation ,  and  the  Lord  shall  reign  over  them  in  mount  Zion  from  hence¬ 
forth,  even  for  ever .” 

In  the  above  verses  we  have  the  gathering  from  the 
North  and  West,  and  those  Jews  out  of  Judah  shall  be 
established  first  unto  their  own  land,  in  Jerusalem  (as 
now  already  a  beginning  of  100,000  Jews  settled  in  Pal¬ 
estine,  and  about  35,000  in  Jerusalem,  have  proved  the 
fulfilment  of  the  prophecy). 

The  question  asked:  In  what  manner  will  their  res¬ 
toration  be  accomplished?  aud,  we  answer  with  the 
words  of  the  Prophets,  Micah  2:7.  “Oh!  house  of  Jacob, 
is  the  Spirit  of  the  Lord  straitened?”  and  Zech.  12:6: 
“And  Jerusalem  shall  be  inhabited  again  in  her  own  place, 


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even  in  Jerusalem.”  Indeed,  it  is  our  duty  to  observe 
the  marvelous  works  which  the  Lord  is  doing  in  our  days. 
One  century  ago  the  Jews  could  not  enter  the  ci*y  of 
Jerusalem  except  at  the  peril  of  their  lives,  and  now  (but 
only  a  short  time  ago)  they  have  acquired  the  rights  of 
citizenship  and  of  buying  property.  Jerusalem  can 
already  be  called  “a  Jewish  city.”  Let  it  not  be  forgotten 
that  the  Lord  is  already  preparing  the  way  for  the  return 
of  the  ten  tribes,  and  for  the  whole  house  of  Israel.  God’s 
agencies  are  operating  in  many  diverse  ways  and  man¬ 
ners.  It  has  happened  in  our  life-time:  That  the  interiors 
of  Asia,  Tibet  and  China  were  thrown  open;  that  the 
nations  divided  “the  dark  continent”  of  Africa;  and  are 
coveting  the  utmost  boundaries  of  the  globe;  and  that  a 
network  of  railways  cover  the  five  parts  of  the  earth;  and 
no  doubt,  wheu  God’s  time  shall  have  arrived,  many 
fishers,  “Jewish  missionaries,  and  many  hunters.”  “Jewish 
agencies ,”  shall  be  sent  out  from  Jerusalem  to  fish,  and  to 
hunt,  every  stream,  and  every  mountain  top. — yea,  every 
coal,  salt  and  mineral-mine,  being  the  holes,  where  Jews 
may  reside,  shall  be  minutely  examined,  to  bring  them  to 
Jehovah’s  holy  mountain  in  Jerusalem.  The  prophecy 
quoted  before,  Ezek.  39-28:  “But,  I  have  gathered  them 
unto  their  own  land,  and  have  left  none  of  them  any  move 
there;"1  and  also  Amos  9:9:  “That  not  the  least  grain 
shall  fall  upon  the  earth  shall  surely  be  fulfilled .”  Are 
those  arguments  not  proving  the  question  proposed? 

Doubter.  Your  reasonings  seem  to  be  conclusive  for  a 
believer  of  premillenarian  doctrines,  but  I  am  yet  in  doubt: 
My  own  eyes  see:  That  millions  of  Israelites  “Jews"  go 
rather  to  London,  or  to  New  York,  than  to  Jerusalem,  and 
thousands  of  them  are  going  to  South  America,  Africa  and 
Australia ;  now,  in  the  sight  of  such  facts,  it  is  strange  to 
hear:  That  the  Jews  will  all  be  gathered  again  to  the  holy 
land,  and  our  blessed  Lord  Jesus  will  be  King  over  them— 
our  Savior  is  ours,  and  we  are  Gentiles. 

M.  Surely,  your  questions  are  perplexing,  and 
have  beeu  always  the  cause,  that  many  Christians  have 
given  their  fiat,  and  put  their  seal  to  your  arguments. 


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rather  than  to  the  words  of  the  Eternal  Amen.  In 
answer  to  your  questions,  we  briefly  remark:  1.  That  the 
times  of  the  Gentile  Dispensation  (nations)  Rom.  11:25  in 
which  we  live,  are  running  swiftly  to  their  end.  2.  That 
the  dayspring  of  the  next  Jewish  Dispensation  is  arising 
and  that  the  ligtree,  the  emblem  of  the  Jewish  nation, 
Matt.  11:20  is  again  sprouting  out,  indicating  that  the  sum¬ 
mer  is  7iear,  aud  that  the  dispersion  of  them  will  come 
soon  to  an  end.  3.  That  the  immigration  to  Canaan, 
although  partially  proceeding,  is  already  more  in  number 
than  the  return  of  the  Jews  was  when  leaving  the  Baby- 
Tonian  captivity,  Ezra  V,  2:64,  and  then,  at  that  time  many 
Jews  did  not  leave,  but  remained  in  Assyria  aud  Persia. 
To  understand  your  question,  we  must  consider  and_  con¬ 
template  the  mission  of  Israel  to  the  world  at  large,  a  mission 
which  no  other  nation  can  fultill.  When  Israel  left  Egypt, 
they  asked  for  their  wages  due  for  their  services  during 
their  bondage  of  215  years,  Exod.  3:22,  now  the  Jews  are 
performing  that  same  work  in  “ laying  the  nations  under 
tribute, ”  and  the  wages  kept  from  them  in  ages  past  during 
their  persecution,  are  to  be  restored  to  them  again.  In 
South  America  they  suck  the  breasts  of  the  people,  the 
same  in  the  United  States,  and  in  England,  Russia  and 
Germany,  they  suck  the  breasts  of  the  Kings  and  Queens, 
Isa.  60:17;  Indeed,  the  Jews  are  already  “a  burdensome 
stone  for  all  people”  Zach.  12:3,  and  to  fultill  that  mission, 
"A  dispersion  is  a  necessity.  The  mission  of  the  Jews  to 
the  world  is  a  showing:  What  Election  love  means, 
Jer.  31:3.  No  people  on  the  face  of  the  earth  can  be  com¬ 
pared  with  the  Jews  in  that  respect.  As  a  nation  they 
are  chosen,  they  are  ila  holy  people,  and  a  special  peopled' 
Deutr.  7:6;  yea,  they  are  called  “an  eternal  people” 
(Hebrew)  Olam,  Isa.  44:7;— The  Lord  speaks  of  them  in 
the  most  endearing  language;  “The  Lord  has  given  the 
dearly  beloved  of  His  soul  in  the  hand  of  her  enemies, 
Jer.  12:7;— He  speaks  of  Ephraim  in  the  most  emphatical 
yearning  language:  “How  shall  I  give  thee  up  Ephraim? 
How  shall  1  deliver  thee,  Israel....!  will  not  return  to 
destroy  Ephraim  for  I  am  God,  and  not  man,  the  Holy 
One  in  the  midst  of  thee,”  Hozea,  11:8,  9— Is  Ephraim  my 
dear  son?. . .  .1  do  earnestly  remember  him  still,  therefore 


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my  bowels  are  troubled  for  him,  I  will  surely  have  mercy 
upon  him  saith  the  Lord,”  Jer.  31:ii0.  As  a  nation,  on  the 
other  hand,  Israel,  the  Jews,  is  an  extremely  sinful  nation , 
read  Jer.  2:11;  Ezra  4:15;  Jer.  5:23;  Ezek.  12:25;  rebellious, 
unthankful,  unruling;  and  although,  confessing  God  and 
keeping  the  feast  of  Passover,  they  crucified  their  Messiah , 
Savior  and  King ; — They  have  demonstrated  through  their 
history,  the  doctrine  of  Eternal  Election .  God's  Eternal 
Decrees  about  them,  and  that  of  the  Perseverance  of 
Saints; — and  also,  they  have  laid  open  before  the  world, 
that  the  human  heart  iu  its  deepest  recesses  yearns  after 
things  gone  by,  seeking  after  rest,  and  going  to  the  end  of 
the  earth  in  quest  of  it,  and  that  they  are  like  the  son  in 
the  parable  Luke  15:16,  “eating  the  husks  of  swine  in  a 
foreign  country,”  and  are  satisfied  with  them.  Shall  this 
lost  child,  not  arise,  and  go  again  to  his  fathers’  house,  to 
the  old  homestead?  Shall  he  not  return  to  his  fathers’ 
bosom,  and  weep,  as  “they  weep  over  a  firstborn”  Zech. 
12:10?  We  answer  that  question — They  will,  and  they 
are  coming  “as  the  doves  to  their  windows”  Isa.  60:8; 
Rom.  11:19-21. 

Doubter  Please,  produce  your  New  Testament- 
proofs:  That  Jesus  will  be  King  on  David's  throne 
in  Jerusalem  % 

M.  The  N.  T:  commences  with  that  subject  in  tell¬ 
ing  us:  Matth.  1.  That  Christ  in  his  genealogy ,  is  known  as 
the  royal  son  of  David ,  and  of  all  the  Kings  of  Jerusa¬ 
lem; — Matth.  5:35  “Jerusalem  is  called  the  city  of  the  great 
King.” 

Matth.  2:1-11.  The  wise  man  of  the  East,  did  ask  in 
Jerusalem:  “Where  is  he,  that  is  born  King  of  the  Jews 
....we  are  come  to  worship  him”.... and  when  they 
had  opened  their  treasures,  they  presented  unto  him  gifts 
“ Kingly  gifts,”  gold,  and  fraukincense  and  myrrh,  and 
Nathanael  saith  to  Christ:  “John  1:49.”  Rabbi,  thou  art 
the  Son  of  God;  thou  art  the  King  of  Israel,"  and  in 
John  12:15  Christ  entered  the  city  of  Jerusalem  on  His 
coronation  day  as  the  coming  King  of  the  Jews  accord¬ 
ing  to  prophecy:  “Fear  not,  daughter  of  Zion,  behold 


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thy  King  cometh,  sitting  on  an  ass’s  colt.”  And  the  peo¬ 
ple  cried:  “Blessed  be  the  kingdom  of  our  father 
david  that  cometh  in  the  name  of  the  Lord:  Hosanna  in 
the  highest.”  Mark  11:10.  Christ  not  only  accepted  these 
titles  He  went  farther.  Pilate  did  ask  him,  John  18:33: 
“Art’ thou  the  King  of  the  Jews?”  and  Jesus  answered 
(lit)  verse  37:  “Thou  saith  it:  King  I  am,”  and  in  accord¬ 
ance  to  this  declaration,  He  was  crucified,  having  this 
accusation  written  over  his  head:  “This  is  Jesus  the 
King  of  the  Jews.”  Matt.  27:37. 

The  arch  anyel  declares  it  emphatically.  Luke 
The  Father  lias  given  the  highest  testimony  under  oath 
Luke  1:68  75,  and  the  Holy  Spirit  has  corroborated 
that  testimony  in  Acts  3:21,  whom  (Christ)  the  heavens 
must  receive  until  the  times  of  restitution  R.  V.  resto¬ 
ration”  of  all  things,  which  God  hath  spoken  of  by  the 
mouth  of  all  his  holy  prophets,  since  the  world  began, 
and  among  the  last  words  of  the  Bible,  we  hear  of  the 
words  of  Jesus,  Rev.  22:16:  “I  am  the  root  and  the 
offspring  OF  David,  and  the  bright  and  morning  star. 

CHRIST  THE  KING  OF  THE  JEWS. 

Our  Lord  was  condemned  because  He  acknowledged  to 
be-  “ The  Son  of  the  Living  God,"  Matt.  26:63,  and  “the 
Kina  of  the  Jews,"  Matt.  27:11.  Here  we  have  a  prerog¬ 
ative  of  Christ,  which  belongs  only  to  the  Jews  and  not 
to  any  other  nation.  They  crucified  their  King,  prom¬ 
ised  to  them  in  their  own  Scriptures;  the  power  of  dark¬ 
ness  the  power  of  Rome,  the  priestcraft  of  Jerusalem, 
yea  the  Jewish  nation,  combined  and  conspired  in  that 
fearful  “catastrophe,”  they  killed  the  Prince  of  Life;  but 
God  hath  raised  Him  from  the  dead”  Acts  3:15,  and  made 
that  crucified  one  “both  Lord  and  Christ,  according  to 
the  oath  sworn  to  David  that  of  the  fruit  of  David  s  loins, 
according  to  the  flesh,  He  would  raise  up  Christ  to  sit  on 
his  throne,  “David’s  throne,”  Acts  2:29:36.  Now  the 
question  must  be  answered  peremptorily:  Was  Jesus  the 
crucified  King  of  the  Jews  in  deed  and  in  truth-,  the  King 
of  the  Jews,  the  King  of  Israel,  at  any  time?  and  if 
this  question  is  answered  in  the  negative  then  the  conse¬ 
quence  must  follow:  (If  not  in  the  future?)  that  Christ  is 


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not  and  cannot  be  the  true  Messiah.  Indeed,  on  the 
answer  to  this  question  hangs  the  veracity  of  our  holy 
religion.  We  put  our  seal  to  the  truth  of  God,  and  de¬ 
clare:  Jesus,  the  Christ  of  God  shall  personally  come 
back,  appear  in  glory  and  reign  as  the  King  of  the  Jews 
over  the  house  of  Jacob  and  His  reign  and  dominion  shall 
have  no  end.  Luke  1:32,  33. 

AXIOMS. 

It  is  an  established  fact:  That  our  Lord  as  the  God- 
man  was  annointed  to  three  offices  n.  1.  Prophet,  Priest 
and  King,  and  that  He  in  Palestine  was  the  greatest  of  all 
the  prophets  ever  before  Him  on  earth;  also  it  is  uudeni- 
able,  that  as  man  He  died  in  Palestine  on  the  cross  as  the 
only  Priest,  being  the  Lamb  of  God.  The  third  office 
of  being  a  King  in  Palestine  on  the  throne  of  his  father 
David,  he  never  filled,  and  yet,  He  was  the  Prince 
Royal  of  the  house  of  David.  How  did  this  oversight 
occur? 

That  Satan  understood  this  axiom  is  perfectly  clear, 
he  did  know:  “That  the  Christ  of  God  must  rule  on  earth 
as  King”  Matt.  2:5  ;  Rev.  12:5  ;  and  consequently,  “he 
offered  Jesus  all  the  kingdoms  of  the  world,  and  the  glory 
of  them”  Matt.  4:8. 

We  also  read  in  Luke  1:71  that  Jesus  came  on  earth: 
“To  save  Israel  from  its  enemies,  and  from  the  hand  of 
all  that  hate  the  Jews.” 

We  all  agree,  that  when  Christ  died  at  Golgotha,  that 
this  was:  “ the  hour  of  the  power  of  darkness"  Luke  22:53, 
and  that  Satau  and  his  allies  triumphed  in  the  victory. 
Acts  4:25.  26. 

We  all  agree,  that  our  Lord  never  showed  himself  as  the 
Conqueror  on  earth,  to  the  unbelieving  Jews  (Acts  1:2,  3; 
10:42).  Now,  the  question  arises:  In  what  manner  shall 
the  quoted  prophecy  be  fulfilled,  and  also  the  words,  which 
we  find  iu  Zach.  12:10  and  in  Rev.  1:7? 

Must  it  not  also  draw  our  utmost  astonishment:  That 
the  Lord  allows  Satan  to  have  possession  of  the  Holy  Land, 
and  that  the  Turks,  the  most  wicked  and  the  most  blas¬ 
phemous  of  all  the  enemies  of  Christ,  and  the  most  trusty 
adies  of  Satan  are  the  rulers  of  that  country?  No  doubt. 


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Satan  feels  a  daily  delight  in  hearing  the  Muezzin  crying 
out  '‘Mohammed  is  the  Prophet”  and  seeing  the  Moham¬ 
medans  trampling  down  upon  all  Christendom,  and  dese¬ 
crating  Immanuels’  land.  Isa.  8:8. 

Is  it  not  even  marvelous,  that  all  the  other  nations 
cannot  make  Jerusalem  free.  The  Crusaders  tried  it,  but 
iu  vain— The  powers  of  Europe  tried  it  without  success, 
and  it  is  an  acknowledged  fact:  That  Statesmen  have  come 
to  the  conclusion:  That  there  is  not  another  such  an  intri¬ 
cacy  known  on  the  globe,  like  that  of  Palestine. 

Now,  the  great  questions  are:  Who  shall  have  it  in  the 
future :  Satan  or  Christ?  The  Turks,  or  the  Jews?  and, 
Who  shall  be  the  King  of  the  Jews— In  the  plain  light  of 
Scripture,  we  answer:  Jesus  Christ ,  shall  be  the  King  of 
the  Jews ,  and  His  Kingdom  shall  have  no  end.  Dan.  2:44., 
Luke  1:38. 

A  GLORIOUS  VISTA. 

What  tongue  is  able  to  proclaim  the  coming  glory  of 
Israel,  what  pen  is  swift  enough  to  record  the  coming 
events?  The  Spirit  of  God  has  given  us  the  words,  and 
drawn  a  picture  of  love,  unspeakably  lovely  and  joy  fully . 
We  will  quote:  Isa.  66: 10:14  “Rejoice  ye  with  Jerusalem, 
and  be  glad  with  her,  all  ye  that  love  her,  rejoice  for  joy 
with  her,  all  ye  that  mourn  for  her.  That  ye  may  suck, 
and  be  satisfied  with  the  breasts  of  her  consolations ,  and 
be  delighted  with  the  abundance  of  her  glory.  For  thus 
saith  the  Lord,  Behold,  I  will  extend  peace  to  her  like  a 
river ,  and  the  glory  of  the  nations  like  a  flowing.  stream, 
then  shad  ye  suck,  ye  shall  be  borne  upon  her  sides,  and 
be  dandled  upon  her  knees. . .  .and  ye  shall  be  comforted 
in  Jerusalem. 

Zephauiah  3:14-20:  Sing,  O  daughter  of  Zion,  shout. 
O  Israel,  be  glad  and  rejoice  with  all  the  heart,  0 
daughter  of  Jerusalem.  The  Lord  hath  taken  away  thy 
judgments,  He  hath  cast  out  thine  enemy.  The  king  of 
Israel,  even  the  Lord  is  in  the  midst  of  thee;  thou 
shalt  not  see  evil  any  more.  In  that  day,  it  shall  be  said 
to  Jerusalem:  “Fear  thou  not,  and  to  Zion.  Let  not 
thine  hands  be  slack.  The  Lord  thy  God  in  the  midst  of 
thee  is  mighty.  He  will  save.  He  will  rejoice  ovei  thee 
with  joy.  He  will  rest  in  His  love.  He  will  bring 


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joy  oyer  thee  with  singing!  ....  At  that  time,  will  I 
bring  you  again,  even  in  the  time  that  I  gather  you;  for  I 
will  make  you  a  name,  and  a  praise  among  all  the  people 
of  the  earth ,  when  I  turn  back  your  captivity  before  your 
eyes,  saith  the  Lord.”  Here  we  have  a  description  of 
love,  above  all  that  can  be  found  elsewhere,  but  in  the 
beautiful  song  of  Solomon:  “The  heavenly  picture  of 
love  between  Christ  and  His  people  in  the  coming  millen¬ 
nial  age.”  Isa.  62;2-4  “And  the  Gentiles  ‘nations’  shall 
see  thy  righteousness  and  all  kings  thy  glory;  and  thou, 
‘Israel,  the  Jews,’  shall  be  called  by  a  new  name,  which 
the  mouth  of  the  Lord  shall  name.  Thou  shalt  be  a  crown 
of  glory  in  the  hand  of  the  Lord,  and  a  royal  diadem  in 
the  hand  of  thy  God.  Thou  shalt  not  more  be  termed 
Forsaken;  neither  shall  thy  land  any  more  be  called 
Desolate,  but  thou  shalt  be  called  Hephzi-bah,  and  thy 
land  Beulah,  for  the  Lord  delighteth  in  thee ,  and  thy 
land  shall  be  married.”  Verse  12:  And  they  shall  call 
them,  The  holy  people,  The  redeemed  of  the  Lord ,  and 
thou  shalt  be  called,  “ Sought-out ,  a  city  not  forsaken 


A  WORD  TO  ALL. 


Before,  we  take  our  farewell  of  this  subject,  and  lay 
down  our  pen,  as  being  the  last  Tract  we  ever  expect  to 
write,  and  like  our  former  tracts’  to  send  it  as  a  silent 
messenger,  on  its  errand,  we  ask  your  indulgence  in 
bringing  briefly  before  you,  the  following  remarks: 

* Former  Tracts  Issued:  “The  Personal  Coming  of  Christ,  as  the 
King  on  the  throne  of  David  in  Jerusalem;”  “The  Anti-Christ,  and  the 
signs  of  His  coming;”  “The  Times  of  the  Gentiles;”  The  Dispensa¬ 
tions,  National  Rnform  Movement;”  “Satan,  the  Deceiver  of  the 
Nations;”  “Ichabod,  Decay  and  Lawlessness  Threatening  Church 
Organizations  and  Families;”  “The  Wave  Period,  Ecclesia  (The 
Church],  the  Kingdom  to  Come;”  Palestine,  (an  Abstract  of  Title 
Deeds)  Jewish  Domain  and  Property:”  “The  Testimony  of  the  Bible, 
Versus  the  Parliament  of  Religions.” — “The  Holy  Spirit.— The  declen¬ 
sions  of  religion  and  fallacies  of  the  XIX  Century. 


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brethren  IN  THE  MINISTRY. 

The  topic  treated  on  in  the  preceding  pages  is  a  topic 
worthy  of  our  consideration. — It  is  of  the  greatest  import¬ 
ance  at  the  present  time;— It  is  producing  to  the  lover  of 
Israel  untold  blessings.  Ps  128:6:  “Pray  for  the  peace  of 
Jerusalem,  they  shall  prosper  that  love  t,hee^  ;  It  opens  up 
the  ancient  treasures  of  prophecies;— It  gives  a  view  of 
old  and  new  things;— It  leads  us  into  the  chambers  ot 
delight,  where  the  Holy  Spirit  will  teach  His  Servants, 
and  will  reveal:  “the  hidden  wisdom”  Dan  12:4,  promised 
to  them”,  yea,  it  causes  us:  To  study  better,  to  preach 
better,  and  to  pray  more  fervently,  than  ever  before;— 
The  command  of  our  Lord  is:  Luke  24:4*  “ Hey  inning  at 
Jerusalem ,”  and  in  the  city  of  the  great  King  we  have  to 
end,  and  is  the  radius  of  the  circle  in  which  we  ought  to 
labor,  and  having  these  thoughts,  we  will  do  the  work 
which  the  Master  did:  “In  saving  the  lost  sheep  of  the  house 
of  Israel:'  Matth.  10:6,  and  our  delight  and  joy  will  be  in 
establishing  missions  for  Jew  and  Gentiles.  I  he  General 
Assembly  of  the  Church  of  Scotland  in  1840,  resolved 
unanimously:  “That  the  cause  of  Israel  should  from 

THAT  TIME  FORM  ONE  OF  THE  GREAT  MISSIONARY  SCHEMES 

of  that  Church  and  the  blessings  from  on  high  followed 
upon  their  undertaking,  “The  Lord  owned  that  labor  of 
love  We  also  rejoice  in  the  fact:  That  although  we 
nearly  labored  alone  from  1864  to  1876,  in  the  Jewish  mis¬ 
sion-field  in  New  York  City,  now  nearly  ten  missions  to 
the  Jews  are  established,  also  Missions  in  Philadelphia, 
Chicago  and  other  cities  for  Israel,  have  been  founded. 

To  God  be  the  glory!  .  .  ..  „  n  , 

May,  we  ask  you,  Brethren,  as  in  the  sight  ot  Loci: 
Are  the  Jews  remembered,  in  your  preachiug,  and  prayers, 
in  your  contributions  and  support? — Is  this  your  continual 
aim  and  delight?-  or,  is  the  Jewish  Mission  cause  forgotten? 

OFFICERS,  SABBATH-SCHOOLS. 

Will  you  be  offended,  if  we  ask  you:  Do  you  remem¬ 
ber  in  the  prayers  of  your  Sabbath-school,  the  spiritual 
wants  and  need's  of  so  many  of  the  exiled  and  persecuted 
children  of  Abraham,  and  of  the  Jews  amongst  us?  Do 
you  often  speak  of  them,  to  your  youthful  scholars,  as 


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being  the  children  of  the  Patriarchs,  Priests  and  Prophets, 
and  of  the  witnesses  placed  before  us,  to  testify  :  That 
the  Bible  is  true  and  is  the  word  of  the  God  of  Abraham, 
Isaac  and  Jacob?  Do  you  impress  upon  their  minds  ; 
That  Jesus,  our  Master  is  the  Jew  of  Nazareth,  one  of 
that  same  race,  now  so  shamefully  forgotten,  and  neg¬ 
lected?  Let  us  continually  remember  the  words  of  our 
Lord:  “Verily,  I  say  unto  you,  inasmuch  as  you  have 
done  it  unto  oue  of  the  least  of  these  my  brethren  ye  have 
done  it  unto  me.”  Matthew  25:40. 

PRAYER-MEETINGS. 

Is  it  not  a  common  oversight,  of  those  who  attend 
Missionary  and  common  prayer-meetings,  to  seek  the 
spiritual  welfare  of  the  foreign  heathen  nations,  to  ask 
spiritual  gifts  for  the  laborers  in  those  fields,  and  never  to 
bring  one  petition,  one  request  before  the  Triune  God 
in  behalf  of  His  vet  “beloved  people  for  the  fathers’ 
sake;”  Indeed,  Israel,  “the  Jews,”  is  by  many  entirely 
forgotten  in  their  private,  family,  and  social  prayers, — 
and  O!  how  incongruous  it  must  be  in  the  eyes  of  Him, 
“ who  wept  over  Jerusalem"  to  hear  only  the  prayers  for 
those  nations,  whom  we  have  never  seen  and  to  send  to 
them  the  bread  of  life;  and  to  keep  it  back  from  our  neigh¬ 
bor-citizens,  the  Jews,  who  did  give  us  that  bread  of  life; 
yea,  never  to  speak  personally  to  them  in  regard  to  their 
souls,  although  we  transact  business  with  them. 

Let  us  observe,  the  injunction  of  the  apostle  Paul  in 
Rom.  1:16  “To  the  Jew  first,  and  also  to  the  Greek-Gen- 
tile.”  Here,  we  have  the  rule  for  our  conduct,  the  Jew  is 
the  tirst,  the  Gentile,  the  next,  “Thy  Kingdom  come,” 
Jews  and  Gentiles,  must  be  our  daily  prayer,  and  although 
this  principle  must  be  the  principle  of  the  Church,  and 
church-meetings;  yet.  Israel  has  a  more  superior  claim, 
than  the  Gentiles.  To  go  to  the  heathen,  preaching  and 
supporting  the  Gospel  among  them  is  a  duty  of  love.  To 
go  to  the  Jews  as  missionaries,  and  to  preach  Christ  Jesus, 
the  Jew  of  Nazareth,  is  an  obligation  resting  upon  the 
Church;  it  is  not  only  remitting  an  old  debt,  unpaid 
during  the  ages ;  it  ought  to  be  a  debt  paid  with  accrued 
interest ;  Rom.  15-26,  27;  “For  it  hath  pleased  them  of 


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Macedonia  and  Achaia  to  make  a  certain  contribution  for 
the  poor  saints,  which  are  at  Jerusalem.  It  hath  pleased 
them  verily,  and  their  debtors  they  are.  For  if  the 
Gentiles  have  been  made  partakers  of  their  spiritual  things, 
their  duty  is  also  to  minister  unto  them  in  carnal  things.” 

RELIGIOUS  PRESS. 

May  we  also  speak  a  few  words  to  you  Editors  of  the 
religious  and  secular  press— to  you  who  are  wielding  a 
pen  of  magic  and  of  power,  and  can  be  called  “the  motor 
power  of  the  present  age — is  it  not  an  astonishing  fact 
that  the  doctrine  of  Jesus'  personal  and  glorious  appearance 
on  earth  as  the  King  of  the  Jeivs  in  Jerusalem  contains  such 
a  small  space  on  your  editorial  pages;  and  that  if  by  acci¬ 
dent  the  .lews  are  mentioned  they  seem  rather  to  be 
regarded  as  an  outlived  religious  sect,  and  a  next 
neighbor  to  Christianity,  although  they  discard  Christ 
totally ;  scarcely  ever  is  given  to  them  their  right  place  as 
being  a  nation  indeed,  and  in  expectancy ,  a  flower  whose 
leaves  are  unfolding,  which  will  draw,  in  the  near  future, 
the  admiration  of  the  whole  world. 

Shall  we,  as  Gentile  Christians  profess  the  doctrine 
of  the  Jew  of  Nazareth  and  forget:  “His  yet  beloved  peo¬ 
ple?”  Shall  we  record  the  prospects  of  the  oriental  and 
Mongolian  nations  and  neglect  them?  Shall  we  enjoy 
the  blessings  of  the  greatest  son  of  Abraham  and  David 
and  forget  His  brethren?  It  was  spoken  by  Jewish  lips 
and  to  Jewish  disciples:  “And  whosoever  shall  give  to 
drink  unto  one  of  these  little  ones  a  cup  of  cold  water, 
only  in  the  name  of  a  disciple,  verily  I  say  unto  you,  he 
shall  in  no  wise  lose  his  reward."  Matt.  10:42. 

OUR  OMEGA. 

To  you,  dear  brothers  and  sisters  in  Christ,  who  are 
warm  friends  of  God's  ancient  people ,  and  whose  daily 
prayers  for  the  Jews  are  ascending  to  the  throne  of  the 
Most  High,  it  is  our  prayer:  “That  your  bow  abide  in 
strength,  and  that  your  hands  may  be  made  strong,  by 
the  hands  of  the  mighty  God  of  Jacob  (from  whence  is 
the  shepherd,  the  stone  of  Israel)”  Gen  49:24. 

To  you,  dear  brothers  and  sisters  in  Christ,  who  are  con¬ 
verted  Israelites,  who  are  brought  by  the  Holy  Spirit, 


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to  the  knowledge:  That  your  eldest  Brother  Joseph  is  yet 
in  life,  “at  the  right  haud  of  the  “Majesty  on  High,”  and 
that  He  will  provide  for  you.  “Fear  not,  you  are  the 
first-fruits  of  the  harvest  to  come,  to  follow  the  Lamb 
whithersoever  He  goeth”  Rev.  14:4. 

To  you,  Israelites,  “Jews,”  who  are  yet  estranged 
from  your  Messiah,  Immanuel  Jesus,  and  are  yet  the 
wandering  sheep  of  the  house  of  Israel,  if  this  Tract 
should  happen  to  come  in  your  hands  we  send  it  with  a 
warm  heart,  even  warm  as  it  was  when  we  spent  our 
whole  time  ar  d  the  vigor  of  manhood  in  missionating 
amongst  you;*  our  daily  prayer  is  that  of  your  ancient 
brother,  Saul  of  Tarsus:  “Brethren,  my  heart’s  desire, 
and  prayer  to  God  for  Israel  is,  that  they  might  be  saved” 
Rom.  10:1.  O!  that  the  Spirit  from  on  high  may  blow 
mightily  upon  those  dry  bones  that  they  may  become  a 
great  army  for  King  Jesus  Ps.  110:2,  and  not  alone  for 
the  Jews,  “Israel’s  race”  is  our  prayer;  it  is  “O,  Father! 
Thy  kingdom  come,”  among  Jew  and  Gentiles;  it  is  for 
all  and  for  those  who  are  yet  estranged  from  our  Master, 
“The  Christ  of  God.”  <J!  that  the  Holy  Spirit  may 
blow  upon  His  garden  and  “that  the  Beloved  may  come 
to  His  garden,  and  eat  His  precious  fruits’’  Songs  of  Solo¬ 
mon  4:16. 

And,  as  we  commenced  in  our  Alfha,  so  we  end  in  our 
Omega;  we  commend  it  to  God  and  the  Lamb  with  the 
humble  petition  that  it  may  redound  to  the  glory  of  His 
name  forever,  Amen.  A.  C.  Tris. 

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Call  to  the  Children  of  Israel,”  in  English,  German  and  Jargon  Hebrew 
and  “Questions  and  Answers  Between  a  Jew  and  a  Christian.” 


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Ittemotinl. 

When  in  1845,  we  entered  the  Ministry  of  the 
Secession  Church  of  Holland,  (from  whence  we  were 
called  in  1851,  to  America),  our  Alpha  was  to  preach  the 
Gospel  to  Jew  and  Gentile;  we  advocated  the  establish¬ 
ment  of  a  Missionary  Society  in  our  Congregation  in 
behalf  of  the  heathen  and  the  Jews 

In  1864,  we  commenced  in  the  city  of  New  York, 
A  Mission  to  the  Jews,  a  work  of  love  and  faith,  and 
were  as  Missionary,  and  also  as  Secretary  of  our  Society 
for  twelve  years,  daily  seeking  the  spiritual  welfare  of 
the  Jews. 

Remembering  that  period,  our  heart  feels  joyful  to 
mention:  How  willingly  our  “ now  departed"  dearly 
beloved  wife,  Mrs.  Agnes  J.  I.  Tris,  (who  died  recently, 
August  3rd,  1895),  was  to  go  with  us,  and  our  three 
small  children  to  the  city  of  New  York,  "in  which  we 
were  all  strangers  ”  She  was  not  only  a  true  helpmate, 
counselor  and  sweet  companion  showing  great  patience, 
love  and  self-sacrifice  in  many  trials  of  faith  and  hard¬ 
ships  in  that  trying  mission  to  Israel;  She  was  also 
one,  who  by  her  Christian  example  drew  the  admiration 
of  the  Jews  as  loving  them  for  their  father’s  sake,  and 
truly  “we  never  could  have  accomplished  that  mission, 
without  her  arduous  labor." 

In  commemoration  of  this,  and  our  happy  union  of 
nearly  thirty-nine  years,  we  write  this  Memorial, 
giving:  God  and  the  Lamb  the  glory,  for  ever  and 
ever,  Amen  and  Amen,  Selah,  which  were  some  of  the 
last  words  of  our  beloved  one-and  now,  to  be  in  the 
presence  of  her  beloved  Savior  must  be  a  joy  unspeak¬ 
ably;  and,  to  adore  Him,  as  the  God-man,  the  son  of 
Abraham  must  thrill  the  deepest  recesses  of  all  "the 
spirits  of  just  men  made  perfect Truly,  her  crown 
bought  by  Jesus  will  willingly  be  laid  at  his  feet. 

And  now,  this  tract,  our  Omega,  as  a  golden  clasp  is 
fastening  all  our  life  work,  spoken  and  published  about 
Israel,  “the  Jews,”  and  of  the  personal  and  glorious 
coming  of  Jesus,  as  the  king  of  Israel.  We  set  solemnly 
OUR  SEAL  TO  IT  FOREVER,  as  being  THE  ONLY  REVEALED 

truth  of  the  Triune  God.  Amen. 

E)ea  flDotnes,  Howa,  ©ctober,  1895.  A.  C.  TRIS. 


Vindication! 


DIALOGUE. 

Doubter.  Good  morning ,  my  dear  brother  in  Christ , 
your  subject  announced  is  a  most  interesting  one ,  yet  you 
know  I  disagree  entirely  with  your  literal  explanation  of 
the  prophecies.  It  is  my  sincere  belief:  That  the  prophe¬ 
cies  speak  of  and  mean  the  present  Christian  Church;  that 
the  Jews  never ,  as  a  nation ,  will  return  to  Canaan;  and 
that  Christ  will  never  be  their  King  in  Jerusalem. 

Minister.  Let  us  reason  together  in  all  kindness  and 
candor,  and  pray  for  the  annointing  of  the  Holv  Spirit 
“to  guide  us  in  all  truth,  and  to  show  us  things  to" come.” 
John  16:13. 

Doubter.  Please  produce  your  outward  proofs ,  your 
inward  proofs,  and  your  Scriptural  proofs :  That  the 
.Tews  must  be  restored  as  a  nation  to  their  old  homestead , 
and  that  our  blessed  Lord  Jesus  will  be  King  over  them. 

M.  The  outward  proofs  are  many: 

THEOCRACY. 

Ouv  first  argument  is:  That  there  can  be  no  failure  in 
anything  that  Jehovah  has  established,  to  manifest  His 
own  glory.  The  Lord  established  over  Israel  and  Canaan 
“His  Theocracy”  for  900  years.  He  made  Palestine  the 
superior  power  on  earth,  ruling  there  as  the  Supreme  and 
making  it:  “The  cradle  of  true  religion.”  His  indwelling, 
Shekinah,  was  there,  manifested  in  the  Tabernacle  and 
in  the  Temple,  and  He  declared  that  Israel  was  “His 
firstborn”  among  the  nations.  Exod.  4:22.  Since  Is¬ 
rael’s  dispersion  aud  captivity,  Nebuchadnezzar  and  the 
four  world-dominions  aud  kingdoms,  the  heathen  nations 
“the  Beasts”  were  substituted  in  the  place  of  Israel. 
Jer.  27:6,  8,  9;  Dan.  2:31;  so  that  the  Christ  of  God,  “the 
promised  seed,"  was  born  in  Bethlehem,  under  the  rule  of 
the  Roman  government,  Luke  2:1.  The  promise  given  in 
Gen.  49:10  deolares  emphatically:  “When  Shiloh  shall 
come,  that,  unto  Him  the  gathering  of  the  people  shall 


—  4  — 

be.’  This  has  never  yet  been  fulfilled:  “The  Lion  of  the 
tribe  of  Judah,  the  Root  of  David”  Rev.  5:4  has  never  yet 
taken  the  reign  as  “King  of  Nations”  Rev.  19:16,  “in 
“Mount  Zion  from  henceforth  even  forever.”  Micah  4:7. 
It  has  not  happened,  Mich.  4:8,  “That  the  first  (chief; 
dominion,  the  kingdom  has  come  to  the  daughter  of  Jeru¬ 
salem.”  The  declaration  of  the  archangel  Gabriel,  Luke 
1:32,  33,  “That  the  Lord  God  shall  give  unto  Him  (Jesus), 
the  throne  of  his  father  David,  and  that  He  shall  reigu 
over  the  house  of  Jacob  for  ever,  and  of  his  kingdom 
there  shall  be  no  end”  is  also  not  yet  fulfilled.  The  Chris¬ 
tian  church  is  not  a  kingdom,  is  not  the  house  of  Jacob ,  and 
consequently:  The  King,  the  people  and  the  land  are  all 
Jewish  subjects;  Christ,  the  Jews,  and  Canaan,  are  so 
closely  united  in  one,  that  it  is  like  a  threefold  cord  that 
no  power  on  earth  ever  shall  be  able  to  cut  or  destroy. 
The  Jews,  now  set  aside  for  a  short  time  Isa.  54:7,  shall 
not  only  be  reinstated  as  a  nation,  but  permanently  live 
under  a  more  glorious  Theocracy,  under  the  rule  of  their 
eldest  brother,  “their  own  Joseph”— having  the  domin¬ 
ion  of  the  earth,  Ps.  72:8,  and  then  it  will  be  seen  that 
there  is  no  failure  in  God’s  rule,  and  that  the  second 
Adam  is  also  the  beloved  David  promised  in  Hosea  3:5, 
“whose  rule  shall  be  everlastiug,”  Isa.  9:7;  11:1-10. 

PROGENITURE. 

Our  second  argument  is:  That  the  progeniture  of  the 
eldest  son  is  an  established  fact  in  the  Orient.  Abraham 
is  called  in  Gen.  17:5  “a  father  of  many  nations.”  In 
Abraham  comes  the  Jew,  the  Christian,  the  Moslem,  yea, 
the  infidel  as  in  a  centre— a  wonderful  phenomenon  not 
to  be  found  elsewhere  on  the  globe— of  a  conglomeration 
of  nations  calling  one  man  their  father,  “as  a  Father  of 
nations ,  thus  literally  fulfilling  the  change  of  name,  which 
Jehovah  made  now  4,000  years  ago.  Isaac,  the  son  of 
promise,  the  only  son  of  the  legitimate  mother,  Sarah, 
was  declared  by  the  Most  High  God  to  be  the  heir  of 
Abraham,  his  father,  Gen.  21:7,  and  consequently  the 
property  of  Abraham  was  not  Ishmael’s  (the  son  of  the 
bond-woman,  the  progenitor  of  the  Moslems),  it  was 
belonging  to  Isaac;  and,  the  property  being  an  estate  in 
expectancy,  Acts  7:5,  Heb.  11:9-13,  the  title  deed  in  fee 


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simple ,  constituted  Isaac  as  the  bonajlde  owner  of  Pales¬ 
tine,  and  this  title  deed  was  recorded  in  heaven  and 
acknowledged  by  Jehovah’s  Covenaut,  Oath  and  Promise 
to  a  thousand  generations,  Ps.  105:8- L 1 .  There  is  no  law 
or  power  in  the  Universe  which  can  abrogate  or  nullify 
that  act  and  document  of  the  chancery  of  heaven,  the 
lawful  descendants  of  Isaac  and  Jacob  must  by  the  law 
of  progeniture  possess  the  land  of  Canaan,  and  will  claim 
and  are  claiming  already  the  promised  possession. 

SACKED  GRAVES. 

Our  third  argument  is:  That  the  whole  world  acknowl¬ 
edges  the  sanctily  of  their  graves.  Let  us  pay  attention 
to  this  solemn  fact:  That  the  Holy  Land  is  filled  with  the 
graves  and  the  bones  of  pious  Israelites  who  served  the 
God  of  the  whole  earth  pre-eminently,  above  all  the 
nations  of  the  world.  No  wouder  that  the  pious  Israelite 
weeps  over  the  desolation  of  those  graves  Neh.  2:3;  and 
yearns  to  lie  down  and  to  be  buried  in  that  sacred  soil  of 
Canaan;  indeed,  the  Jews  are  a  nation  of  mourners  in 
this  respect,  and  are  looking  forward  with  great  sanctity. 

The  true  Christian  has  yet  greater  concern  than  ever 
Israel  had:  The  Lord  of  Glory  slept  for  three  days  in  His 
sanctified  grave,  and  rose  as  the  conqueror  of  death  and 
hell  Rev.  1:17.  He,  as  our  representative  and  surety, 
has  given  to  the  soil  of  Palestine,  a  sacredness  very  far 
above  our  comprehension.  Will,  and  can  these  graves 
forever  remain  in  the  hand  of  the  Infidels?  We  answer, 
no!  they  must  become  again  the  property  of  Israel,  the 
bones  of  the  idolatrous  priests  of  Bethel  were  burned  by 
Josiah,  2  Chr.  34:4,  5,  three  hundred  and  fifty  years  after 
their  burial,  1  King  13:2,  and  were  an  abhorence  in  the 
sight  of  Jehovah.  We  know  that  on  the  morning  of  the 
Resurrection  day,  when  Jesus  shall  stand  on  the  Mount  of 
Olives  Zach.  14:4;  that  His  people  shall  come  forth,  like 
Lazarus  from  their  graves.  Then  the  land  of  Palestine 
shall  be  free,  and  Israel  shall  possess  it.  Ps.  69:34:36;  Ps. 
22:28:31;  Ps.  37:28,  29;  2  Thess.  1:7-10. 

SACRED  ASHES. 

It  is  one  of  the  enigmas  never  yet  explained:  That  the 
sacred  ashes  of  Mount  Zion,  produced  by  the  millions  of 
sacrifices  offered  to  Jehovah,  for  more  than  a  thousand 


—  6  — 

years;  that  the  tears  shed  at  the  sin  and  thank-offerings 
falling  upon  the  soil  of  Palestine  should  not  be  preserved 
in  Jehovah  bottle  as  a  remembrance?  Ps.  56:8.  That  the 
place  where  the  Shekinah  stood,  most  holy,  most  glorious, 
most  precious  above  anything  on  earth,  or  in  heaven,  for¬ 
ever  should  be  trodden  down  by  the  Gentiles  Luke  21:24, 
yea,  by  the  worst  of  the  Gentiles,  daily  blasphemiug  the 
identity  of  the  Son  of  God,  the  Christ  of  God,  the  King  of 
Israel.  There  i3  only  one  solution  to  this  problem,  and 
that  is:  That  God's  justice  shall  yet  be  vindicated.  The 
Moslems  (the  Turks)  shall  be  punished  for  their  odious 
crimes  and  Israel  shall  be  reinstated  in  their  lawful  pos¬ 
session:  coming  events,  which  will  beggar  all  description, 
shall  herald  the  doom  of  God’s  euemies,  and  the  glory  of 
His  dear  people,  the  Jews,  yet  beloved  for  the  Father’s 
sake. 

THE  HOLY  LAND. 

Palestine  is  indeed  the  most  sacred  country  on  the 
globe:  In  no  other  country  on  earth  did  angels  sing,  and 
was  heard  the  melody  of  the  angelic  hosts,  but  in  Bethle¬ 
hem,  Ephratah,  Luke  2:13.  In  no  boundary  on  earth,  was 
heard  the  audible  voice  of  the  Father,  but  in  the  Para¬ 
dise,  Gen.  3:9;  in  Exod.  20:1;  on  the  stream  of  Jordan, 
Matt.  3:17,  and  “in  the  holy  mount,”  2  Peter  1:18.  What 
an  honor  and  dignity  were  bestowed  upon  those  sacred 
spots!  Indeed,  Palestine  is  the  sacred  place  of  the  Most 
high!  No  land  of  the  globe  was  ever  so  consecrated  by  the 
footsteps  of  the'  Son  of  God,  and  no  laud  was  ever  so 
sanctified  as  Palestine,  by  the  descending  of  the  Holy 
Spirit  visibly  upon  Jesus  and  upon  the  Apostles,  Acts  2: 
1-5.  Yea,  no  other  soil  of  any  country  has  been  the 
receiver  of  the  sweat  and  blood  of  the  Son  of  man,  the  Son 
of  God.  Calvary  is  remembered  not  only  through  the 
ages.  It  is  remembered  by  Jehovah  Jesus  himself,  Rev. 
1:17,  Rev.  5:5;  and  all  generations  to  come  will  look,  with 
the  innumerable  host  of  angels  to  the  cross  of  jesus, 
planted  in  Jewish  soil.  Have  all  these  facts  no  significa¬ 
tion?  Are  they  not  most  precious  treasures  in  the  eyes  of 
a  Triune  God,  and  if  so?  Shall  the  Most  High  forget  His 
own  inheritance?  Jesus  came  once  as  the  banished 
one,  “to  his  own  things,  but  his  own  people  received  him 


not,”  John  1:11.  Shall  He  not  claim  it:  “When  He  shall 
appear  the  second  time  without  sinoffering  unto  salva¬ 
tion,”  Hebrew  9:28?  Shall  the  soil  not  be  His  own,  which 
drunk  up  his  precious  blood?  Shall  Jesus  go  empty  away, 
and  leave  the  patrimony  oi'  His  fathers  aud  the  throne 
of  dayid?  We  ask  these  questions  as  in  the  sight  of  the 
coming  One.  We  know  Israel  left  Egypt  without  leaving 
“a  hoof  behind,”  Exod.  10:26,  so  Jesus,  as  "The  Israelite 
Indeed ”  shall  possess  not  only  His  Ruth,  but  also  her  land, 
and  inheritance  forever  aud  ever  as  the  Goel  of  Israel, 
Ruth  4:1-12. 

Doubter.  Letus  now  hear  What  your  inward  proofs 
are,  that  the  Jews  must  be  brought  back  to  their  patri¬ 
mony ,  and  once  must  possess  the  land  of  Palestine ? 

M.  Only  a  few  remarks  about  your  question. 

PALESTINE. 

This  sequestered  spot  of  earth,  answers  exactly  as  a 
counterpart  to  the  Jewish  people.  It  being  small  in 
dimensions  only  200  by  80  miles,  and  yet  it  is  known 
among  all  the  nations  of  the  world,  like  that  people;  It  is 
isolated,  closed  in  by  natural  obstacles,  chains  of  moun¬ 
tain,  deserts  and  sea,  and  yet,  it  has  been  the  battle¬ 
field  for  many  generations  of  Africa,  Asia  and  Europe. 
Indeed,  the  words  of  Jehovah,  have  been,  aud  are  in  ful¬ 
filment  at  the  present  time,  that  Palestine  (the  Eastern 
question)  should  be:  “A  stone,  a  burdensome  stone  for  all 
people ,  all  that  burden  themselves  with  it  shall  be  cut  to 
pieces,  though  all  the  people  of  the  earth  should  be  gath¬ 
ered  against  it,”  Zech.  12:3,  and  the  same,  is  true  about 
the  Jews.  Palestine,  as  represented  by  the  cursed  fig-tree, 
Matt.  11:20,  is  now  like  the  Jews,  since  1800  years,  under 
the  curse,  in  a  exiled  state,  resting  of  its  Sabbaths,  wait¬ 
ing  for  the  redemption  of  Israel,  Luke  1:67-79. 

Let  us  never  forget  that  our  Lord  Jesus,  has  an  inher¬ 
itance  right  upon  that  land,  as  an  Israelite,  as  a  son  of 
Mary,  as  having  received  the  token  of  circumcision,  and 
as  the  heir  of  Abraham  and  David  his  fathers,  according 
to  the  flesh;  aud  consequently  his  rights  must  forever 
remain  the  same,  as  long  as  Palestine  is  in  existence. 


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His  Messianic  claim  must  and  will  be  put  in,  at  some  day 
of  the  approaching  century ,  being  a  personal  claim,  and 
also  a  National  claim,  in  accordance  to  Zech.  2:9-13. 
“Sing  and  rejoice  O!  daughter  of  Zion,  for  lo,  I  come,  and 

I  will  dwell  in  the  midst  of  thee,  saith  the  Lord _ and 

the  Lord  shall  inherit  Judah ,  his  portion  in  the  holy  land, 
and  shall  choose  Jerusalem  again.  Be  silent  O!  all  flesh 
before  the  Lord,  for  He  is  raised  up  out  of  the  habitation 
of  His  holiness”  margin. 

ETHNOLOGY. 

Let  us  give  only  a  synopsis  of  this  extensive  subject: 

The  Jews  belong  to  “the  blessed”  race  of  Shem,  Gen. 
9:26,  so  Christ  is  a  Shemite,  and  the  Lord  of  Shem  No 
nation  is  purer  in  their  descent  of  blood,  Phil.  3:5,  for 
more  than  4,000  years,  than  Israel.  As  a  race,  they  bear 
a  most  wonderful  distinction ;  a  Jewish  skull  is  known  and 
is  discerned  among  the  skulls  of  all  other  nations,  and 
when  living,  a  child  can  point  out  the  race,  often  saying 
with  scorn:  “It  is  a  Jew." 

Their  intellectual  faculties  are  of  a  superior  order. 
They  have  accumulative  powers  of  mind  in  learning, 
trading  and  commerce;  they  are  destined  to  become  “a 
race  blessed  by  God.” 

Their  restorative  powers  are  amazing;  they  are  like 
the  bush,  Exod.  3:2,  burning,  but  not  consumed— never 
annihilated  in  thousands  of  merciless  persecutions, 
phenix-like  they  arise  out  of  their  ashes  and  shine  brighter 
than  ever  before. 

The  people  of  “the  wronged  sinew”  in  China,  the  per¬ 
secuted  Karaite  of  Russia,  those  living  on  the  Oder,  on 
the  Rhine,  on  the  Hudson,  or  elsewhere,  all  manifest  the 
same  traces  of  chaiacter. 

We  say  more,  the  nearly  ten  millions  of  Israelites, 
“Jews,”  possess  a  power  scarcely  dreamed  of  by  the 
Christian  nations.  As  a  nation  they  rule  the  money  markets 
of  the  world;  they  loan  billions  of  dollars.  “In  the  last 
twelve  years  the  house  of  the  Rothschilds  have  loaned  to 
certain  European  governments  nearly  $450,000,000”  ( Neiv 
York  World).  From  where,  and  what  are  the  reasons 
that  the  Jews  do  not  arise  as  a  nation  to  recover  the  pat- 


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rimony  of  their  fathers,  the  graves  of  their  ancestors? 
We  answer,  the  time  appointed  for  that  event  has  not 
yet  arrived,  “the  fear”  spoken  of  in  Deut.  28:67  is  yet 
upon  them,  they  are  (as  before  in  the  wilderness)  in  a 
preparatory  state,  they  are  now  serving  yet  the  nations, 
not  as  slaves,  but  as  man-pleasers.  “Their  table  being 
made  a  snare  and  a  trap,  and  a  stumbling  block  and  a 
recompense  unto  them”  Rom.  11:9;  they  worship  in  deed: 
“The  MODERN  GOLDEN  CALF.” 

That  a  movement  among  the  Jews  will  be  a  fact  of  the 
near  future  is  plainly  indicated  in  the  prophecy  of  Ezekiel 
37:.  “  The  dry  bone  s moved,"  the  skin,  Jtlesh  and  sinevvs 
all  indicate  a  progressive  movement ,  and  also  the  marching 
of  the  army  of  the  slain  brings  before  us  a  concentration  of 
that  people;  and  truly,  it  seems  to  be  a  problem,  that  such 
a  movement  never  yet  has  been  tried.  What  a  revolution! 
What  a  convulsion  of  the  monetary  circles  of  the  wolrd  it 
would  give,  if  that  money  power  should  join  hands  with 
the  mass  of  that  people  in  all  lands  of  the  globe.  The 
Jews  as  a  nation  have  a  tendency ,  and  a  promise  to  be 
rulers  of  the  nations,  Isa,  60:12.  Indeed,  the  crescent  would 
wane,  at  the  thought  that  its  day  had  come,  and  that  the 
rightful  heirs  had  entered  their  own  patrimony.  Wonder' 
Jut  developments  may  be  seen  in  a  few  years. 

EXPECTATION  AMONG  THE  NATIONS. 

Every  one  who  comes  in  contact  with  the  Jewish  na¬ 
tion  knows  and  understands  clearly:  “That  they  are  a 
people  dwelling  alone”  Numbers  23:10,  distinct  in  habits, 
peculiar  in  keeping  feast  and  fast  days;  in  one  word:  “an 
enigma”  among  nations;  and  yet, ’Israel  is  a  rock  on 
which  Infidelity  must  break  down;  a  star  of  light,  now 
dimly  shining,  which  will  flash  forth  in  exuberant  light 
and  glory,  when  it  shall  come  near,  and  approach  to  “The 
Sun  of  Righteousness,”  their  lawful  King. 

This  feeling  is  found  everywhere  among  the  nations: 
The  orthodox  Jew  believes  and  proclaims:  That  there  is 
yet  a  bright  destiuy  in  the  future,  and  in  his  most  solemn 
assembly:  He  cries  out:  “ Next  year  our  feast  in  Jerusa¬ 
lem."  The  Moslem  keeps  “the  Eastern  gate  at  Jerusalem 


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securely  shut,”  to  prevent  tne  entrance  of  the  expected 
coming  of  Israel's  King  through  that  gate.” 

Among  all  the  oriental  nations  there  is  au  expectation 
that  great  events  will  come  aud  that  Jerusalem  “the  sec¬ 
ond  holy  city  of  the  Moslems”  will  become  the  centre  of 
coming  events. 

And  so  it  is  among  the  Occidents:  How  many  tens  or 
thousands  of  believers,  “ premillenarians ,”  waiting  for  the 
coming  and  the  glorious  appearance  of  the  Lord  Jesus, 
pray  daily,  pray  fervently:  “Tht  kingdom  come;”  they 
join  their  prayers  and  inward  hopes  with  the  Spirit  and 
the  Bride,  and  say;  “Come”  and  verify  the  word  of  Him 
who  has  promised:  “Surely,  I  come  quickly,  Amen.” 
liev.  22:17-20.  Shall  the  doctrine  of  the  Primitive  Apos¬ 
tolic  church  be  set  aside  and  become  of  no  avail?  No! 
Jesus  comes  again — Jesus  as  earth’s  King  shall  rule  on 
David’s  throne. 

Doubter.  Your  suggestions  are  all  very  interesting , 
but  we  require  your  Scriptural  proofs :  “ Thus  sank 
Jehovah  God!  What  is  written  in  the  volume  of  the 
BookT ’  and  to  establisli  the  Jact:  That  the  Jews  as  a 
whole  nation  shall  be  reinstated  in  Canaan,  and  that 
it  will  be  under  the  rule  of  Christ ,  the  King  oj  the  Jews, 
in  Jerusalem. 

M.  Your  demand  and  request  is  a  most  proper  one, 
and  it  is  our  design  to  lay  before  you  the  very  words 
spoken  by  the  Lord  on  these  subjects;  our  only  request  is: 
That  every  one  may  read  them  as  they  are:  “ literal ,” 
WITHOUT  SPIRITUALIZING;  or  giving  to  them  another 
meaning  or  saying:  “This  must  be  understood  quite  differ¬ 
ent;  it  means  not  the  Jews  or  the  Jewish  land;  but  it 
means  the  Christian  church,  this  dispensation  or  the  coun¬ 
try  in  which  we  live.” 

DILEMMA. 

Jehovah  delares:  That  His  covenants  made  with  Abra¬ 
ham  and  David,  the  First  about  the  land  of  Canaan,  the 
Latter  about  the  Davidic  dynasty  are  made  forever: 

Gen  17:7  8.  “And  I  will  establish  my  covenant  between  me  and 
thee,  and  thy  seed  after  thee  in  their  generation  for  an  everlasting  cov- 


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enant,  to  be  a  God  uuto  thee  and  to  thy  seed  after  thee.  And  T  will  give 
unto  thee  and  to  thy  seed  after  thee,  the  land  wherein  thou  art  a 
stranger  all  the  land  of  Canaan  for  cm  everlasHng  possession,  and 
I  will  be  their  God.”  Gen,  13:15:  ‘-For  all  the  land  which  thou  seest 
to  thee  will  I  give  it,  and  to  thy  seed  for  ever.  Ps.  10o:8:  ‘‘He  hath 
remembered  /..is  covenant  for  ever,  the  word  which  he  commanded  to  a 
thousand  generations.”  Ps.  89:3,  4:  I  have  made  a  covenant  with  my 
chosen,  I  have  sworn  unto  David,  my  servant,  Thy  seed  will  I  establish 
for  ever,  and  build  up  thy  throne  to  all  generations.  Selah.11  2  Sam.  7. 
j 2-29 ;  Jer.  30:9,  10:  ‘*But  they  shall  serve  the  Lord  their  God,  and  David 
their  King  (Hebr.  their  beloved  King)  whom  I  will  raise  up  unto  them 
and  Jacob  shall  return  and  shall  be  in  rest  and  be  quiet  and  none 
shall'  make  him  afraid.”  E/.ek.  31:24,  25:  ‘‘And  the  Lord  will  be  their 
God  and  My  servant  David  (I-Iebr.  My  beoved  servant)  a  prince  among 
them;  I  the  Lord  have  spoken  it,  and  I  will  make  with  them  a  covenant 
of  peace  ...  and  they  shall  uo  more  be  a  prey  to  the  heathen  nations.” 
Kzek.  37:25:  ‘‘And  they  shall  dwell  in  the  land  that  l  have  given  unto 
Jacob  my  servant,  wherein  your  fathers  dwelt,  and  they  shall  dwell 
therein,  even  they  and  their  children’s  children  for  ever  and  myservant 
David  (beloved  servant)  shall  be  their  prince/o?1  ever.'"  (The  meaaiug 
of  the  word  David  in  Hebrew  is  "beloved.") 

What  alternative  will  you  take?  If  you  sav:  These 
covenants  are  broken,  abrogated  or  set  aside.  Very  well. 
We  ask  you,  What  surety  have  you  that  the  uew  covenant 
or  the  covenant  of  your  own  soul  is  not  set  aside?  One 
covenant  is  in  its  nature,  execution  and  sealing  even 
sacred,  holy  and  true  as  the  other;  God  is  a  covenent  lov¬ 
ing  and  a  covenant  keeping  God  and  your  denial  scatters 
all  the  foundations  of  your  holy  religion.  You  say:  Those 
promises  are  fulfilled.  Judah  did  return  and  now  we 
have  another  dispensation.  We  answer:  Indeed  Israel 
did  partly  return  and  now  we  live  under  the  dispensation 
of  the  nations,  but  we  afiirm  solemnly,  those  promises  are 
not  fulfilled,  they  are  for  ever.  The  Lord  calls  Israel  yet 
“His  people ,”  Rom.  11:1-5.  “As  concerning  the  gospel 
they  are  enemies  for  your  sakes,  but  as  touching  the  elec¬ 
tion,  they  are  beloved  for  the  father’s  sake.”  Rom.  11:38, 
and  the  Lord  knowing  our  unbelief  in  this  respect  has 
made  mountains,  hills,  rivers  and  valleys  to  be  co-wit¬ 
nesses  of  those  prophecies  and  are  made  pledges  to  the 
world,  indeed  the  following  words  are  unique:  “Ezek.  3L 
6-15,  “Therefore  thus  saith  the  Lord  God:  I  have  lifted  up 
mine  hand:  Surely  the  heathen  that  are  about  you  they 
shall  bear  their  shame.  But  ye,  O!  mountains  of  Israel , 
ye  shall  shoot  forth  your  branches  and  yield  your  fruit  to 


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my  people  of  Israel,  for  they  are  at  hand  to  come,  for  be¬ 
hold,  I  am  for  you  and  I  will  turn  unto  you,  and  ye  shall 
be  tilled  and  sown.” 


THE  TWELVE  TRIBES  OF  ISRAEL. 

But  the  question  maybe  asked:  Does  the  expression 
“my  people  of  Israel'*  mean  all  the  house  of  Jacob,  all 
the  Jews,  without  any  exception ,  and  we  answer:  Yes,  it 
is  as  clear  as  the  cloudless  sun  that  shinelhin  the  heavens: 


Ezek  36-10  And  I  will  multiply  men  upon  you,  all  the  house  of 

Israel,  even  all  of  it .  and  I  will  settle  you  after  your  old  estates 

and  will  do  better  unto  you  than  at  your  beginnings  Yea,  1  will 
cause  men  to  walk  upon  you.  even  my  people  Israel,  and  they  shall  pos¬ 
sess  thee,  and  thou  shait  be  their  inheritance.” 

Ezek.  37:11:  “Then  he  said  unto  me,  Son  of  Man,  these  bones  are 
the  whole  house  of  Israel:”  verse  19  “Thus  saith  the  Lord  God. 
Beheld  I  will  take  the  stick  of  Joseph,  which  is  in  the  hand  of  Israe  , 
his  fellows  and  will  put  them  with  him  even  with  the  stick  of  Judah 
and  make  them  one  stick  and  they  shall  be  one  in  mine  hand  ....  and  I 
will  make  them  one  nation  in  the  laud  upon  the  mountains  of  Israel, 
and  one  King  shall  be  King  to  them  all,  and  they  shall  be  no  more 
two  nations,  neither  shall  they  be  divided  into  two  kingdoms  any  more 
At  all”  Ezek  39:28:  “Then  shall  they  know  that  I  am  the  Lord  their 


jrely 

ble  7}  Jacob,  all  of  thee.”  Romans  11:26  “and  so  all .Israel  shall 
be  saved  as  it  is  written,  ‘There  shall  come  out  of  Zion,  the  Deliverer, 
and  shall  turn  away  ungodliness  from  Jacob;  Hebrews  8:11.  *  For  all 
shall  know  me  from  the  least  to  the  greatest  ”  Luke  1.33  And  He 
shall  reign  over  the  house  of  Jacob  for  ever.  Luke  22-.30.  1  hat  ye 

may  eat  and  drink  at  my  table  in  my  kingdom  and  sit  on  thrones,  judg¬ 
ing  the  twelve  tribes  of  Israel.” 


Doubter.  You  have  indeed  produced  forcible  argu¬ 
ments,  yet,  what  we  like  to  hear  is  your  conclusive 
proofs:  That  the  Jews  will  come  out  from  their  present 
“Diaspora,"  and  will  settle  in  Canaan;  and ,  in  what 
manner  that  restoration  will  be  accomplished ? 


M.  The  Ashkenazi  and  the  Sephardi,  Spanish  and 
German  Jews,  which  constitute  the  Jewish  population  of 
Europe,  and  of  Palestine,  belong  principally  to  the  tribe 
of  Judah,  and  these  will  settle  first  on  the  old  homestead, 
and  such  is  already  partly  the  case  with  them,  and  also 
with  Yemen  Jews,  which  are  at  present  in  Jerusalem 
and  in  Palestine.  Zechariah  12:7,  “The  Lord  also  shall 


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save  the  tents  of  Judah  first,  that  the  glory  of  the  house 
of  David,  and  the  glory  of  the  mhabit^ 
do  not  magnify  themselves  against  Judah.  ihen,  alter 
wards,  the  descendants  of  the  Ten  Tribes  now  seemingly 
lost,  will  come  from  the  east,.  Rev.  16:12.  A  general 
uprising  among  the  Jews  of  China  and  Ceylon  --among 
the  inhabitants  of  Afghanistan,  Bokhara,  Purkistan, 
Samarkand  and  Belouchistan  will  be  seen  and  a  search¬ 
ing  after  the  descent,  and  descendants  of  Israel  every- 
where  shall  occur,  and  that  search  shall  be  made  thor¬ 
oughly  the  following  prophecies  speak  of  a  twofold 

gathering: 

Tsa  49-'2  “Behold  these  shall  come  from  far,  and  lo  these  from 
bring  all'yoou  brethren 

9:9:  ’“For  lo,  1  will  command,  and  I  will  sift  the  house  of 
all  nations  like  as  corn  is  sifted  in  a  sieve,  yet  shall  not  the  least  m  am 
fall  upon  the  earth.  Verse  15.  “And  I  will  plant  them  upon  tbe«  land, 
and  they  shall  no  more  be  pullec up  out  ot  their  land  'Jhion  i 

nrnlce  ^h  er  "th  a  t  ’  h  al  ted  Je'mnanL  at  ifefthiU  wa?  cast  off  a  strong 
nation,  and  the  Lord  shall  reign  over  them  m  mount  Zion  from  hence¬ 
forth,  even  for  ever." 

In  the  above  verses  we  have  the  gathering  from  the 
North  and  West,  and  those  Jews  out  of  Judah  shall  be 
established  first  unto  their  own  land,  in  Jerusalem  (as 
now  already  a  beginning  of  100,000  Jews  settled  in  Pal¬ 
estine,  and  about  35,000  in  Jerusalem,  have  proved  the 

fulfilment  of  the  prophecy).  ^ 

The  question  asked:  in  what  manner  will  their  res 
toration  be  accomplished?  and,  we  answer  with  the 
words  of  the  Prophets,  Micah  2:7.  ‘Oh!  house  of. J ac >b, 
is  the  Spirit  of  the  Lord  straitened?  and  Zech.  2.6. 
“And  Jerusalem  shall  be  inhabited  again  in  her  own  place, 


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even  in  Jerusalem.”  Indeed,  it  is  our  duty  to  observe 
the  marvelous  works  which  the  Lord  is  doing  m  our  days 
One  century  ago  the  Jews  could  not  enter  the  ci  y  of 
Jerusalem  except  at  the  peril  of  their  lives  and  now  (but 
only  a  short  time  ago)  they  have  acquired  the  rights  ot 
citizenship  and  of  buying  property.  Jerusalem  can 
already  be  called  “a  Jewish  city-  Let  it  not  be  forgotten 
that  the  Lord  is  already  preparing  the  way  for  the  retain 
of  the  ten  tribes,  and  for  the  whole  house  of  Israel  God  s 
agencies  are  operating  in  many  diverse  ways  and  man¬ 
ners.  It  has  happened  in  our  life-time:  That  the  inteuois 
of  Asia  Tibet  and  China  were  thrown  open;  that  the 
nations’divided  “the  dark  continent”  of  Africa;  and  are 
coveting  the  utmost  boundaries  ot  the  globe;  and  that  a 
network  of  railways  cover  the  five  parts  of  the  earth;  and 
no  doubt,  when  God’s  time  shall  have  arrived,  many 
fishers  “Jewish  missionaries,  and  many  hunters.  Jewish 
agencies,”  shall  be  sent  out  from  Jerusalem  to  hsh,  and  to 
hunt  every  stream,  and  every  mountain  top.— yea,  every 
coal  'salt  and  mineral-mine,  being  the  holes,  where  Jews 
may  reside,  shall  be  minutely  examined,  to  bring  them  to 
Jehovah’s  holy  mountain  in  Jerusalem.  I  he  piophecy 
quoted  before,  Ezek.  39-28:  “But.  I  have  gathered  them 
uuto  their  own  land,  and  have  left  none  of  them,  any  mo le 
there'”  and  also  Amos  9:9:  “That  not  the  least  gram 
shall’ fall  upon  the  earth  shall  surely  be  fulfilled Are 
those  arguments  not  proving  the  question  proposed? 


Doubter.  Your  reasonings  seem  to  be  conclusive  for  a 
believer  of  premillenarian  doctrines,  but  I  am  yet  in  doubt: 
My  own  eves  see:  That  millions  of  Israelites  Jews  go 
rather  to  London ,  or  to  New  York,  than  to  Jerusalem,  and 
thousands  of  them  are  going  to  South  America ,  Africa  and 
Australia;  now,  in  the  sight  of  such  facts,  it  is  strange  to 
hear:  That  the  Jews  will  all  be  gathered  again  to  the  holy 
land,  and  our  blessed  Lord  Jesus  will  be  King  over  them 
our  Savior  is  ours,  and  we  are  Gentiles. 


M.  Surely,  your  questions  are  perplexing,  and 
have  been  always  the  cause,  that  many  Christians  have 
given  their  fiat ,  and  put  their  seal  to  youi  arguments, 


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rather  than  to  the  words  of  the  Internal  Amen,  la 
answer  to  your  questions,  we  briefly  remark:  1.  lhat  the 
times  of  the  Gentile  Dispensation  (nations)  Rom.  11:25 in 
which  we  live,  are  running  swiftly  to  their  end.  2.  lhat 
the  davspring  of  the  next  Jewish  Dispensation  is  arising 
and  that  the  iigtree,  the  emblem  of  the  Jewish  nation, 
Matt  11 :20  is  again  sprouting  out,  indicating  that  the  sum¬ 
mer  is  near,  aud  that  the  dispersion  of  them  will  come 
soon  to  an  end.  3.  That  the  immigration  to  Canaan, 
although  partially  proceeding,  is  already  more  in  number 
than  the  return  of  the  Jews  was  when  leaving  the  Baby¬ 
lonian  captivity,  Ezra  u,  2:64,  and  then,  at  that  time  many 
Jews  did  "not  leave,  but  remained  in  Assyria  aud  rersia. 
To  understand  your  question,  we  must  consider  and  con¬ 
template  the  mission  of  Israel  to  the  world  at  large,  a  mission 
which  no  other  nation  can  fulfill.  When  Israel  left  Egypt, 
thev  asked  for  their  wages  due  for  their  services  during 
their  bondage  of  215  years,  Exod.  3:22,  now  the  Jews  are 
performing  that  same  work  in  "laying  the  nations  under 
tribute and  the  wages  kept  from  them  in  ages  past  during 
their  persecution,  are  to  be  restored  to  them  again,  in 
South  America  the}'  suck  the  breasts  of  the  people,  the 
same  in  the  United  States,  and  in  England,  Russia  and 
Germany,  they  suck  the  breasts  of  the  Kings  and  Queens, 
lsa.  60:17;  Indeed,  the  Jews  are  already  “a  burdensome 
stone  for  all  people”  Zach.  12:3,  and  to  fulfill  that  mission, 
‘A  dispersion  is  a  necessity.  The  mission  of  the  Jews  to 
the  world  is  a  showing:  What  Election  love  means, 
Jer  31-3.  No  people  on  the  face  of  the  earth  can  be  com¬ 
pared  with  the  Jews  iu  that  respect.  As  a  nation  they 
are  chosen,  they  are  “a  holy  people,  and  a  special  people,  ^ 
Deutr  7-6;  yea,  they  are  called  “an  eternal  people 
(Hebrew)  Olam,  Isa.  44:7;— The  Lord  speaks  of  them  in 
the  most  endearing  language;  “The  Lord  has  giveu  the 
dearly  beloved  of  His  soul  in  the  hand  of  her  enemies 
jer  12-7; — He  speaks  of  Ephraim  in  the  most  emphatical 
yearning  language:  “How  shall  I  give  thee  up  Ephraim? 

How  shall  I  deliver  thee,  Israel - 1  will  not  return  to 

destroy  Ephraim  for  I  am  God,  and  not  man,  the  Holy 
One  in  the  midst  of  thee,”  Hozea,  11:8, ,9.- Is, Ephrami  my 
dear  son?. . .  .1  do  earnestly  remember  him  still,  therefoie 


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my  bowels  are  troubled  for  him,  I  will  surely  have  mercy 
upon  him  saith  the  Lord,”  Jer.  31 : As  a  nation,  on  the 
other  hand,  Israel,  the  Jews,  is  an  extremely  sinful  nation , 
read  Jer.  2:11;  Ezra  4:15;  Jer.  5:23;  Ezek.  12:25;  rebellious, 
unthankful,  unruling;  and  although,  confessing  God  and 
keeping  the  feast  of  Passover,  they  crucified,  their  Messiah , 
Savior  and  King ; — They  have  demonstrated  through  their 
history,  the  doctrine  of  Eternal  Election .  God's  Eternal 
Decrees  about  them,  and  that  of  the  Perseverance  of 
Saints;— and  also,  they  have  laid  open  before  the  world, 
that  the  human  heart  in  its  deepest  recesses  yearns  after 
things  gone  by,  seeking  after  rest,  and  going  to  the  end  of 
the  earth  in  quest  of  it,  and  that  they  are  like  the  son  in 
the  parable  Luke  15:16,  “eatiner  the  husks  of  swine  in  a 
foreign  country,”  and  are  satisfied  with  them.  Shall  this 
lost  child,  not  arise,  and  go  agaiu  to  his  fathers’  house,  to 
the  old  homestead?  Shall  he  not  return  to  his  fathers’ 
bosom,  and  weep,  as  “they  weep  over  a  firstborn”  Zech. 
12:10?  We  answer  that  question— They  will,  and  they 
are  coming  “as  the  doves  to  their  windows”  Isa.  60:8; 
Rom.  11:19-21. 

Doubter  Please,  produce  your  New  Testament- 
proofs:  That  Jesus  will  be  King  on  David's  throne 
in  Jerusalem  f 

M.  The  N.  T:  commences  with  that  subject  in  tell¬ 
ing  us:  Matth.  1.  That  Christ  in  his  genealogy,  is  known  as 
the  royal  son  of  David ,  and  of  all  the  Kings  of  Jerusa- 
lem; — Matth.  5:35  “Jerusalem  is  called  the  city  of  the  great 
King." 

Matth.  2:1-11.  The  wise  man  of  the  East,  did  ask  in 
Jerusalem:  “Where  is  he,  that  is  born  King  of  the  Jews 

_ we  are  come  to  worship  him” - and  when  they 

had  opened  their  treasures,  they  presented  unto  him  gifts 
“ Kingly  gifts,"  gold,  and  frankincense  and  myrrh,  and 
Nathanael  saith  to  Christ:  “John  1:49.”  Rabbi,  thou  art 
the  Son  of  God;  thou  art  the  King  of  Israel and  in 
John  12:15  Christ  entered  the  city  of  Jerusalem  on  His 
coronation  day  as  the  coming  King  of  the  Jews  accord¬ 
ing  to  prophecy:  “Fear  not,  daughter  of  Zion,  behold 


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thy  King  cometh,  sittiug  on  an  ass’s  colt.”  And  the  peo¬ 
ple  cried'  “Blessed  be  the  kingdom  of  our  iather 
Eavid  that  cometh  in  the  name  of  the  Lord:  Hosanna  in 
the  highest.”  Mark  11:10.  Christ  not  only  accepted  these 
titles  He  went  farther.  Pilate  did  ask  him,  John  18.3d. 

•  ‘Art  thou  the  King  of  the  Jews?”  and  Jesus  answered 
(lit)  verse  37:  “Thou  saith  it:  King  I  am,’  and  in  accord¬ 
ance  to  this  declaration,  He  was  cruci hed,  having  this 
accusation  written  over  his  head:  “This  is  Jesus  the 
King  of  the  Jews.”  Matt.  27:37.  0 

The  archangel  declares  it  emphatically.  Luke  1:32:33 
The  Father  lias  given  the  highest  testimony  under  oath 
Luke  1-68  75,  and  the  Holy  Spirit  has  corroborated 
that  testimony  in  Acts  3:21,  whom  (Christ)  the  heavens 
m  us  ^receive  Intil  the  times  of  restitution  R.  V.  “resto¬ 
ration”  of  all  things,  which  God  hath  spoken  of  by  the 
mouth  of  all  his  holy  prophets,  since  the  world  began 
and  among  the  last  words  of  the  Bible,  we  hear  of  the 
words  of  Jesus,  Rev.  22:16:  “J  am  the  root  and  the 
offspring  of  David,  and  the  bright  and  morning  stai. 

CHRIST  THE  KING  OF  THE  JEWS. 

Our  Lord  was  condemned  because  He  acknowledged  to 
be-  "The  Son  of  the  Living  Godf  Matt.  26:63,  and  the 
Kina  of  the  Jewsf  Matt.  27:11.  Here  we  have  a  prerog¬ 
ative  of  Christ,  which  belongs  only  to  the  Jews  and  not 
to  any  other  nation.  They  crucified  their  King,  prom¬ 
ised  to  them  in  their  own  Scriptures;  the  power  of  dark¬ 
ness  the  power  of  Rome,  the  priestcraft  of  Jerusalem 
vea  ’the  Jewish  nation,  combined  and  conspired  in  that 
fearful  “catastrophe,”  they  killed  the  Prince  of  Life;  but 
God  hath  raised  Him  from  the  dead’’  Acts  3:15,  and  made 
that  crucified  one  “both  Lord  and  Christ,  according  to 
the  oath  sworn  to  David  that  of  the  fruit  of  David  s  loins, 
According  to  the  flesh,  He  would  raise  up  Christ  to  sit  on 
his  throne,  “David’s  throne,”  Acts  2:29:36.  Now  the 
question  must  be  answered  peremptorily -  Was  Jesus  the 
crucified  King  of  the  Jews  in  deed  and  m  truth-,  the  King 
of  the  Jews,  the  King  of  Israel,  at  any  time?  and  if 
this  question  is  answered  in  the  negative  then  the  conse¬ 
quence  must  follow:  (If  not  in  the  future?)  that  Christ  is 


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not  and  cannot  be  the  true  Messiah.  Indeed,  on  the 
answer  to  this  question  hangs  the  veracity  of  our  holy 
religion.  We  put  our  seal  to  the  truth  of  God,  and  de¬ 
clare:  Jesus,  the  Christ  of  God  shall  personally  come 
back,  appear  iu  glory  and  reign  as  the  King  of  the  Jews 
over  the  house  of  Jacob  and  His  reign  and  dominion  shall 
have  no  end.  Luke  1:32,  33. 

AXIOMS. 

It  is  an  established  fact:  That  our  Lord  as  the  God- 
man  was  annointed  to  three  offices  n.  1.  Prophet,  Priest 
and  King,  aud  that  He  in  Palestine  was  the  greatest  of  all 
the  prophets  ever  before  Him  on  earth;  also  it  is  undeni¬ 
able,  that  as  man  He  died  in  Palestine  on  the  cross  as  the 
only  Priest,  being  the  Lamb  of  God.  The  third  office 
of  being  a  King  in  Palestine  on  the  throne  of  his  father 
David,  he  never  filled,  and  yet.  He  was  the  Prince 
Royal  of  the  house  of  David.  How  did  this  oversight 
occur? 

That  Satan  understood  this  axiom  is  perfectly  clear, 
he  did  know:  “That  the. Christ  of  God  must  rule  on  earth 
as  King”  Matt.  2:5  ;  Rev.  12:5  ;  and  consequently,  “he 
offered  Jesus  all  the  kingdoms  of  the  world,  and  the  glory 
of  them”  Matt.  4:8. 

We  also  read  in  Luke  1:71  that  Jesus  came  on  earth: 
“To  save  Israel  from  its  enemies,  and  from  the  hand  of 
all  that  hate  the  JewsT 

We  all  agree,  that  when  Christ  died  at  Golgotha,  that 
this  was:  “ the  hour  of  the  power  of  darkness"  Luke  22:53, 
and  that  Satan  and  his  allies  triumphed  in  the  victory. 
Acts  4:25,  26. 

We  all  agree,  that  our  Lord  never  showed  himself  as  the 
Conqueror  on  earth,  to  the  unbelieving  Jews  (Acts  1:2,  3; 
10:42).  Now,  the  question  arises:  In  what  manner  shall 
the  quoted  prophecy  be  fulfilled,  and  also  the  words,  which 
we  find  in  Zach.  12:10  and  in  Rev.  1:7? 

Must  it  not  also  draw  our  utmost  astonishment:  That 
the  Lord  allows  Satan  to  have  possession  of  the  Holy  Land, 
and  that  the  Turks,  the  most  wicked  and  the  most  blas¬ 
phemous  of  all  the  enemies  of  Christ,  and  the  most  trusty 
allies  of  Satan  are  the  rulers  of  that  country?  No  doubt. 


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Satan  feels  a  dally  delight  in  hearing  the  Muezzin  crying 
out  “Mohammed  is  the  Prophet”  and  seeing  the  Moham¬ 
medans  trampling  down  upon  all  Christendom,  and  dese¬ 
crating  Immanuels’  land.  Isa.  8:8. 

Is  it  not  even  marvelous,  that  all  the  other  nations 
cannot  make  Jerusalem  free.  The  Crusaders  tried  it,  but 
in  vain— The  powers  of  Europe  tried  it  without  success, 
anditisan  acknowledged  fact:  That  Statesmen  have  come 
to  the  conclusion:  That  there  is  not  another  such  an  intri¬ 
cacy  known  on  the  globe,  like  that  of  Palestine. 

Now,  the  great  questions  are:  Who  shall  have  it  in  the 
future:  Satan  or  Christ?  The  Turks,  or  the  Jews?  and, 
Who  shall  be  the  King  of  the  Jews— In  the  plain  light  of 
Scripture,  we  answer:  Jesus  Christ ,  shall  be  the  King  of 
the  Jews ,  and  His  Kingdom  shall  have  no  end.  Dan.  2:44., 
Luke  1:33. 

A  GLORIOUS  YISTA. 

What  tongue  is  able,  to  proclaim  the  coming  glory  of 
Israel,  what  pen  is  swift  euough  to  record  the  coming 
events?  The  Spirit  of  God  has  giveD  us  the  words,  and 
drawn  a  picture  of  love,  unspeakably  lovely  and  joyfully . 
We  will  quote:  Isa.  66: 10:14  “Rejoice  ye  with  Jerusalem, 
and  be  glad  with  her,  all  ye  that  love  her,  rejoice  for  joy 
with  her,  all  ye  that  mourn  for  her.  That  ye  may  suck , 
and  be  satisfied  with  the  breasts  of  her  consolations ,  and 
be  delighted  with  the  abundance  of  her  glory.  For  thus 
saith  the  Lord.  Behold,  I  will  extend  peace  to  her  like  a 
river ,  and  the  glory  of  the  nations  like  a  flowing  stream , 
then  sha'l  ye  suck,  ye  shall  be  borne  upon  her  sides,  and 

be  dandled  upon  her  knees - and  ye  shall  be  comforted 

in  Jerusalem. 

Zephaniah  3:14-20:  Sing,  O  daughter  of  Zion,  shout. 
O  Israel,  be  glad  and  rejoice  with  all  the  heart,  0 
daughter  of  Jerusalem.  The  Lord  hath  taken  away  thy 
judgments,  He  hath  cast  out  thine  enemy.  The  king  of 
Israel,  even  the  Lord  is  in  the  midst  of  thee;  thou 
shalt  not  see  evil  any  more.  In  that  day,  it  shalt  be  said 
to  Jerusalem:  “Fear  thou  not,  and  to  Zion.  Let  not 
thine  hands  be  slack.  The  Lord  thy  God  if  ^  the  midst  of 
thee  is  mighty.  He  will  save.  He  will  rejoice  over  thee 
with  joy.  He  will  rest  in  His  love.  He  will  bring 


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JOY  oyer  thee  with  singing!  ....  At  that  time,  will  I 
bring  you  again,  even  in  the  time  that  I  gather  you;  for  I 
will  make  you  a  name,  and  a  praise  among  all  the  people 
of  the  earthy  when  I  turn  back  your  captivity  before  your 
eyes,  saith  the  Lord.”  Here  we  have  a  description  of 
love,  above  all  that  can  be  found  elsewhere,  but  in  the 
beautiful  song  of  Solomon:  “The  heavenly  picture  of 
love  between  Christ  and  His  people  in  the  coming  millen¬ 
nial  age.”  Isa.  62;2-4  “And  the  Gentiles  ‘nations’  shall 
see  thy  righteousness  and  all  kings  thy  glory;  and  thou, 
‘Israel,  the  Jews,’ shall  be  called  by  a  new  name,  which 
the  mouth  of  the  Lord  shall  name.  Thou  shalt  be  a  crown 
of  glory  in  the  hand  of  the  Lord,  and  a  royal  diadem  in 
the  hand  of  thy  God.  Thou  shalt  not  more  be  termed 
Forsaken;  neither  shall  thy  land  any  more  be  called 
Desolate,  but  thou  shalt  be  called  Hephzi-bah,  and  thy 
land  Beulah,  for  the  Lord  delightetli  in  thee ,  and  thy 
land  shall  be  married.”  Verse  12:  And  they  shall  call 
them,  The  holy  people,  The  redeemed  of  the' Lord,  and 
thou  shalt  be  called,  1 'Sought- out,  a  city  not  forsaken 


A  WORD  TO  ALL. 


Before,  we  take  our  farewell  of  this  subject,  and  lay 
down  our  pen,  as  being  the  last  Tract  we  ever  expect  to 
write,  and  like  our  former  tracts’  to  send  it  as  a  silent 
messenger,  on  its  errand,  we  ask  your  indulgence  in 
bringing  briefly  before  you,  the  following  remarks: 

* Former  Tracts  Issued:  “The  Personal  Coming  of  Christ,  as  the 
King  on  the  throne  of  David  in  Jerusalem;”  “The  Anti-Christ,  and  the 
signs  of  His  coming;”  “The  Times  of  the  Gentiles;”  The  Dispensa¬ 
tions,  National  Reform  Movement;”  “Satan,  the  Deceiver  of  the 
Nations;”  “Ichabod,  Decay  and  Lawlessness  Threatening  Church 
Organizations  and  Families;”  “The  Wave  Period,  Ecclesia  (The 
Church],  the  Kingdom  to  Come;”  Palestine,  (an  Abstract  of  Title 
Deeds)  Jewish  Domain  and  Property:”  “The  Testimony  of  the  Bible, 
Versus  the  Parliament  of  Religions.” — “The  Holy  Spirit, — The  declen¬ 
sions  of  religion  and  fallacies  of  the  XIX  Century. 


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brethren  IN  THE  MINISTRY. 

The  topic  treated  on  in  the  preceding  pages  is  a  topic 
worthy  of  our  consideration. — It  is  of  the  greatest  import¬ 
ance  at  the  present  time;— It  is  producing  to  the  lover  of 
Israel  untold  blessings.  Ps  128:6:  “Pray  for  the  peace  of 
Jerusalem,  they  shall  prosper  that  love  thee”;  It  opens  up 
the  ancient  treasures  of  prophecies;— It  gives  a  view  of 
old  and  new  things;— It  leads  us  into  the  chambers  of 
delight,  where  the  Holy  Spirit  will  teach  His  Servants, 
and  will  reveal:  “the  hidden  wisdom’’  Dan  12:4,  promised 
to  them’’,  yea,  it  causes  us:  To  study  better,  to  preach 
better,  and  to  pray  more  fervently,  than  ever  before;— 
The  command  of  our  Lord  is:  Luke  24:47  “ Beginning  at 
Jerusalem ,”  and  in  the  city  of  the  great  King  we  have  to 
end,  and  is  the  radius  of  the  circle  in  which  we  ought  to 
labor,  and  having  these  thoughts,  we  will  do  the  work 
which  the  Master  did:  “In  saving  the  lost  sheep  of  the  house 
of  Israel Matth.  10:6,  and  our  delight  and  joy  will  be  in 
establishing  missions  for  Jew  and  Gentiles.  The  General 
Assembly  of  the  Church  of  Scotland  in  1840,  resolved 
unanimously:  “That  the  cause  of  Israel  should  from 

THAT  TIME  FORM  ONE  OF  THE  GREAT  MISSIONARY  SCHEMES 

of  that  Church  and  the  blessings  from  on  high  followed 
upon  their  undertaking,  “The  Lord  owned  that  labor  of 
love.”— We  also  rejoice  in  the  fact:.  That  although  we 
nearly  labored  alone  from  1864  to  18ib,  in  the  Jewish  mis¬ 
sion-field  in  New  York  City,  now  nearly  ten  missions  to 
the  Jews  are  established,  also  Missions  in  Philadelphia, 
Chicago  and  other  cities  for  Israel,  have  been  founded. 

To  God  be  the  glory!  .  ,  .  ,  t  , 

May,  we  ask  you,  Brethren,  as  in  the  sight  of  God: 
Are  the  Jews  remembered,  in  your  preaching,  and  prayers, 
in  your  contributions  and  support? — Is  this  your  continual 
aim  and  delight?-  or,  is  the  Jewish  Mission  cause  forgotten? 

OFFICERS,  SABBATH-SCHOOLS. 

Will  you  be  offended,  if  we  ask  you:  Do  you  remem¬ 
ber  in  the  prayers  of  your  Sabbath-school,  the  spiritual 
wants  and  needs  of  so  many  of  the  exiled  and  persecuted 
children  of  Abraham,  and  of  the  Jews  amongst  us?  Do 
you  often  speak  of  them,  to  your  youthful  scholars,  as 


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being  the  children  of  the  Patriarchs,  Priests  and  Prophets, 
and  of  the  witnesses  placed  before  us,  to  testify  :  That 
the  Bible  is  true  and  is  the  word  of  the  God  of  Abraham, 
Isaac  and  Jacob?  Do  you  impress  upon  their  minds  ; 
That  Jesus,  our  Master  is  the  Jew  of  Nazareth,  one  of 
that  same  race,  now  so  shamefully  forgotten,  and  neg¬ 
lected?  Let  us  continually  remember  the  words  of  our 
Lord:  “Verily,  I  say  unto  you,  inasmuch  as  you  hare 
done  it  unto  one  of  the  least  of  these  my  brethren  ye  have 
done  it  unto  me.”  Matthew  25:40. 

PRAYER-MEETINGS. 

Is  it  not  a  common  oversight,  of  those  who  attend 
Missionary  and  common  prayer-meetings,  to  seek  the 
spiritual  welfare  of  the  foreign  heathen  nations,  to  ask 
spiritual  gifts  for  the  laborers  in  those  fields,  and  never  to 
bring  one  petition,  one  request  before  the  Triune  God 
in  behalf  of  His  vet  “beloved  people  for  the  fathers’ 
sake;”  Indeed,  Israel,  “the  Jews,”  is  by  many  entirely 
forgotten  in  their  private,  family,  and  social  prayers,— 
and  O!  how  incongruous  it  must  be  in  the  eyes  of  Him, 
“who  wept  over' Jerusalem"  to  hear  only  the  prayers  for 
those  nations,  whom  we  have  never  seen  and  to  send  to 
them  the  bread  of  life;  and  to  keep  it  back  from  our  neigh¬ 
bor-citizens,  the  Jews,  who  did  give  us  that  bread  of  life; 
yea,  never  to  speak  personally  to  them  in  regard  to  their 
souls,  although  we  transact  business  with  them. 

Let  us  observe,  the  injunction  of  the  apostle  Paul  in 
Rom.  1:16  “To  the  Jew  first,  and  also  to  the  Greek-Gen- 
tile.”  Here,  we  have  the  rule  for  our  conduct,  the  Jew  is 
the  first,  the  Gentile,  the  next,  “Thy  Kingdom  come,” 
Jews  and  Gentiles,  must  be  our  daily  prayer,  and  although 
this  principle  must  be  the  principle  of  the  Church,  and 
church-meetings;  yet.  Israel  has  a  more  superior  claim, 
than  the  Gentiles.  To  go  to  the  heathen,  preaching  and 
supporting  the  Gospel  among  them  is  a  duty  of  love.  To 
go  to  the  Jews  as  missionaries,  and  to  preach  Christ  Jesus, 
the  Jew  of  Nazareth,  is  an  obligation  resting  upon  the 
Church;  it  is  not  only  remitting  an  old  debt,  unpaid 
during  the  ages ;  it  ought  to  be  a  debt  paid  with  accrued 
interest ;  Ro’m.  15-26,  27;  “For  it  hath  pleased  them  of 


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Macedonia  and  Achaia  to  make  a  certain  contribution  for 
the  poor  saints,  which  are  at  Jerusalem.  It  hath  pleased 
them  verily,  aud  their  debtors  they  are.  For  if  the 
Gentiles  have  been  made  partakers  of  their  spiritual  things, 
their  duty  is  also  to  minister  unto  them  in  carnal  things.” 

RELIGIOUS  PRESS. 

May  we  also  speak  a  few  words  to  you  Editors  of  the 
religious  and  secular  press— to  you  who  are  wielding  a 
pen  of  magic  and  of  power,  and  can  be  called  ‘‘the  motor 
power  of  the  present  age— is  it  not  an  astonishing  fact 
that  the  doctrine  of  Jesus'  personal  and  glorious  appearance 
on  earth  as  the  King  of  the  Jews  in  Jerusalem  contains  such 
a  small  space  on  your  editorial  pages;  aud  that  if  by  acci¬ 
dent  the  Jews  are  mentioned  they  seem  rather  to  be 
regarded  as  an  outlived  religious  sect,  and  a  next 
neighbor  to  Christianity,  although  they  discard  Christ 
totally ;  scarcely  ever  is  given  to  them  their  right  place  as 
being  a  nation  indeed,  and  in  expectancy ,  a  flower  whose 
leaves  are  unfolding,  which  will  draw,  in  the  near  future, 
the  admiration  of  the  whole  world. 

Shall  we,  as  Gentile  Christians  profess  the  doctrine 
of  the  Jew  of  Nazareth  and  forget:  “His  yet  beloved  peo¬ 
ple?”  Shall  we  record  the  prospects  of  the  oriental  and 
Mongolian  nations  and  neglect  them?  Shall  we  enjoy 
the  blessings  of  the  greatest  son  of  Abraham  and  David 
and  forget  His  brethren?  It  was  spoken  by  Jewish  lips 
and  to  Jewish  disciples:  “And  whosoever  shall  give  to 
drink  unto  one  of  these  little  ones  a  cup  of  cold  water, 
only  in  the  name  of  a  disciple,  verily  I  say  uuto  you,  he 
shall  in  no  wise  lose  his  reward .”  Matt.  10:42. 

OUR  OMEGA. 

To  you,  dear  brothers  and  sisters  in  Christ,  who  are 
warm  friends  of  God's  ancient  people ,  and  whose  daily 
prayers  for  the  Jews  are  ascending  to  the  throne  of  the 
Most  High,  it  is  our  prayer:  “That  your  bow  abide  in 
strength,  and  that  your  hands  may  be  made  strong,  by 
the  hands  of  the  mighty  God  of  Jacob  (from  whence  is 
the  shepherd,  the  stone  of  Israel)”  Gen  49:24. 

To  you,  dear  brothers  and  sisters  in  Christ,  who  are  con¬ 
verted  Israelites,  who  are  brought  by  the  Holy  Spirit, 


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to  the  knowledge:  That  your  eldest  Brother  Joseph  is  yet 
in  life,  “at  the  right  hand  of  the  “Majesty  on  High,”  and 
that  He  will  provide  for  yon.  “Fear  not,  you  are  the 
first-fruits  of  the  harvest  to  come,  to  follow  the  Lamb 
whithersoever  He  goeth”  Rev.  14:4. 

To  you,  Israelites,  “Jews,”  who  are  yet  estranged 
from  your  Messiah,  Immanuel  Jesus,  and  are  yet  the 
wandering  sheep  of  the  house  of  Israel,  if  this  Tract 
should  happen  to  come  in  your  hands  we  send  it  with  a 
warm  heart,  even  warm  as  it  was  when  we  spent  our 
whole  time  at  d  the  vigor  of  manhood  in  missionating 
amongst  you;*  our  daily  prayer  is  that  of  your  ancient 
brother,  Saul  of  Tarsus:  “Brethren,  my  heart’s  desire, 
and  prayer  to  God  for  Israel  is,  that  they  might  be  saved” 
Rom.  10:1.  O!  that  the  Spirit  from  ou  high  may  blow 
mightily  upon  those  dry  bones  that  they  may  become  a 
great  array  for  King  Jesus  Fs.  110:2,  and  not  alone  for 
the  Jews,  “Israel’s  race”  is  our  prayer;  it  is  “O,  Father! 
Thy  kingdom  come,”  among  Jew  and  Gentiles;  it  is  for 
all  and  for  those  who  are  yet  estranged  from  our  Master, 
“The  Christ  of  God.”  O!  that  the  Holy  Spirit  may 
blow  upon  His  garden  and  “that  the  Beloved  may  come 
to  His  garden,  and  eat  His  precious  fruits”  Songs  of  Solo¬ 
mon  4:16. 

And,  as  we  commenced  in  our  Alpha,  so  we  end  in  our 
Omega;  we  commend  it  to  God  and  the  Lamb  with  the 
humble  petition  that  it  may  redound  to  the  glory  of  His 
name  forever,  Amen.  A  C.  Tris. 

Please  hand  this  Tract  to  your  minister. 


♦Our  Hebrew  Tracts ,  written  especially  in  behalf  of  the  Jews,  pub¬ 
lished  by  the  American  Tract  Society  in  New  York,  are:  “An  Inviting 
Call  to  the  Children  of  Israel,”  in  English.  German  and  Jargon  Hebrew 
and  “Questions  and  Answers  Between  a  Jew  and  a  Christian.” 


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